It fought for the Confederacy, but in the first couple battles took such catastrophic losses that it was effectively out of the war. From what I remember, it w

It fought for the Confederacy, but in the first couple battles took such catastrophic losses that it was effectively out of the war. From what I remember, it was different from other Southern states in that a large minority of settlers weren’t southerners and held the relatively new religious Northern idea that slavery was evil. Southern Democrats were still the majority and the Democrats were holding the threat of succession and violence against Republicans to force concessions about slavery (eg, the Missouri Compromise).