<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi" id="mwsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> becomes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_in_the_American_Civil_War#Secession_and_Mississippian_politics" id="mwtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mississippi in the American Civil War">second state to secede</a> from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(United_States)" id="mwtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Union (United States)">Union</a> before the outbreak of the American Civil War.<sup about="#mwt120" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_9#cite_note-21" id="mwtg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwtw">[21]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"><cite about="#mwt117" class="citation book cs1" id="mwCG4"><a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qmR-XMRfa4AC&amp;pg=PA291" id="mwCG8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCHA">Leadership Education and Training (LET) 4: Text</i></a>. Headquarters, Department of the Army. 2001. p.<span id="mwCHE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>291.</cite><span about="#mwt117" class="Z3988" id="mwCHI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Leadership+Education+and+Training+%28LET%29+4%3A+Text&amp;rft.pages=291&amp;rft.pub=Headquarters%2C+Department+of+the+Army&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DqmR-XMRfa4AC%26pg%3DPA291&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+9"></span></span>