Confederacy and civil war........?

who was the first person of the union to secede and become part of the confederacy? i know Jefferson Davis was the president of the confederacy, but was he the first one to leave the union?
Confederacy and civil war........?
No, he was elected to serve as the President of the new nation. There was not a %26quot;first%26quot; ... several states left at once.
Confederacy and civil war........?
i don%26#039;t know the first person, but i do know the first state to secede. South Carolina.





i don%26#039;t think Jefferson Davis was the first one to leave the Union. he at first, didn%26#039;t even want to leave the Union. but then he changed his views and supported the Confederacy.
Reply:Only states may secede from the U.S. so there was no first %26quot;person%26quot; to secede from the union. There were many people who preached Secession for a long time such as





Edmund Ruffin: Ruffin was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist. He advocated states%26#039; rights, secession, and slavery and was described by opponents as one of the fire-eaters. Ruffin was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and an enemy of the North for its intrusion and invasion of his beloved Virginia.





After the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, this fiery Southerner penned these famous last words in his diary:





I here declare my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule -- to all political, social and business connection with the Yankees and to the Yankee race. Would that I could impress these sentiments, in their full force, on every living Southerner and bequeath them to every one yet to be born! May such sentiments be held universally in the outraged and down-trodden South, though in silence and stillness, until the now far-distant day shall arrive for just retribution for Yankee usurpation, oppression and atrocious outrages, and for deliverance and vengeance for the now ruined, subjugated and enslaved Southern States!


...And now with my latest writing and utterance, and with what will be near my latest breath, I here repeat and would willingly proclaim my unmitigated hatred to yankee rule--to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, and the perfidious, malignant and vile Yankee race.





Ruffin could not get over the loss of his native South in the Civil War, nor could he bear the thought of living in a South ruled by an invader and took his own life, via gunshot to the head, soon after Lee%26#039;s surrender to Grant.