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But for the urgency of the seven original Confederate States, in which Texas and Florida were numbered, Virginia Loyalists would have been able to hold their State firm in her National allegiance.
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Blaine argues that without the pressure from Confederate states, Virginia could have remained loyal to the Union.
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