The third verse of the song misstates the order in which the states seceded from the Union.

The dates on which the states seceded are as follows:

A number of people also suggested that the northern blue states should secede and join Canada, mostly in jest.

Between this time and his inauguration on March 4, seven states would secede from the Union.

Warned him that other states would secede if we did not help them pay their debts.

The speech was so closely argued that if one word should be misplaced, a half-dozen more states would secede.

Four more states seceded as Lincoln called for troops to fight an insurrection.

When the southern states seceded in 1860-61, they relied on the compact theory to justify secession.

Two southern republican states seceded from Brazil in 1835.

Three days later the state of Florida seceded from the United States.