On May 23, 1861 a vote was held in all Fairfax County precincts deciding if the citizens would join the rest of Virginia in seceding from the Union. The Ordinance of Secession shows how the voters cast their ballots. Separated by precinct it helps not only to identify the residents of the county in 1861, but shows the way different areas of the county felt about seceding.
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