An Ordinance: To Dissolve the Union Between the State of Texas and the Other States, United Under the Compact Styled "The Constitution of the United States of America." Adopted in Convention, at Austin City, the First Day of February, A.D. 1861.

Photograph of the Texas Ordinance of Secession from February 1, 1861. Image courtesy of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

February 1, 1861

Picturing the War
Presidential Election of 1860, Secession, and the War's Commencement

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