How many states were border states that did not secede and join the confederacy? Which states were they?

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How many states were border states that did not secede and join the confederacy? Which states were they?

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Frances Spears · Answer 1

To their north they bordered free states of the Union and to their south they bordered Confederate slave states. Of the 34 U. S. states in 1861, nineteen were free states and fifteen were slave states. Two slave states never declared a secession or adopted an ordinance: Delaware and Maryland.