<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwhw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate States of America</a> accept a rival state government's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_secession" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Missouri secession">pronouncement</a> that declares <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_in_the_American_Civil_War" id="mwig" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Missouri in the American Civil War">Missouri</a> to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.