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Effort to improve image, with negative side effect

Hola all. Last month I thought it would be a significant improvement to this gif if it showed the span of the actual Civil War in the timeline. I made that change, but inadvertently broke the thumbnail in the process. I see that Afernand74 tried to fix it yesterday, but didn't work. So today I gave it another shot. Looks like everything is fixed now, with the addition to the timeline. I hope everyone likes the improvement, and I'm sorry for having messed up the thumbnail for six weeks. Hopefully the improvement will make up for any damage done. (Discussion had been posted on the image author's Talk page here.)--ChrisnHouston (talk) 11:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

When did Missouri secede from the Union, or did secede at all...???

Did Missouri Secede from the Union? I would say it did... It's been said you can have your own opinions, but you can't have your own facts. But when it comes to the American Civil War, I wonder...

https://writing.wikinut.com/Did-Missouri-Secede-from-the-Union/mnzxxh5_/#Missouri-secedes

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https://www.civilwar.org/learn/primary-sources/secession-acts-thirteen-confederate-states MISSOURI

An act declaring the political ties heretofore existing between the State of Missouri and the United States of America dissolved. Whereas the Government of the United States, in the possession and under the control of a sectional party, has wantonly violated the compact originally made between said Government and the State of Missouri, by invading with hostile armies the soil of the State, attacking and making prisoners the militia while legally assembled under the State laws, forcibly occupying the State capitol, and attempting through the instrumentality of domestic traitors to usurp the State government, seizing and destroying private property, and murdering with fiendish malignity peaceable citizens, men, women, and children, together with other acts of atrocity, indicating a deep-settled hostility toward the people of Missouri and their institutions; and

Whereas the present Administration of the Government of the United States has utterly ignored the Constitution, subverted the Government as constructed and intended by its makers, and established a despotic and arbitrary power instead thereof: Now, therefore, Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Missouri, That all political ties of every character new existing between the Government of the United States of America and the people and government of the State of Missouri are hereby dissolved, and the State of Missouri, resuming the sovereignty granted by compact to the said United States upon admission of said State into the Federal Union, does again take its place as a free and independent republic amongst the nations of the earth.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, October 31, 1861. This act was passed by a rump legislature called into session in Neosho, Mo., by Gov. C.F. Jackson (who had been removed from office by the State Convention)

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http://confederateflags.org/fotcfaq/fotcfaq4/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America

Over the course of the flag's use by the Confederacy, additional stars were added to the flag's canton, eventually bringing the total number of stars on the flag to thirteen. This reflected the Confederacy's claims of having admitted Kentucky and Missouri into the Confederacy. Although they were represented in the Confederate Congress for the duration of its meetings, and had shadow governments made up of deposed former state politicians, neither state was ever fully controlled or administered by the Confederacy. The first showing of the 13-star flag was outside the Ben Johnson House in Bardstown, Kentucky; the 13-star design was also in use as the Confederate navy's battle ensign.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follows: The width two-thirds of its length, with the union (now used as the battle flag) to be in width three-fifths of the width of the flag, and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on the side of the union twice the width of the field below it; to have the ground red and a broad blue saltire thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with mullets or five pointed stars, corresponding in number to that of the Confederate States; the field to be white, except the outer half from the union to be a red bar extending the width of the flag.[12] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnylee1945 (talk • contribs) 20:19, 14 January 2018 (UTC)