On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

The University of Texas at Austin has also recognized Johnston with a statue on the South Mall.

The President sanctioned similar actions in other states, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.

Forced by his son's respiratory illness to winter in the South, Stone moved to Arkansas and Texas.

Other well-known areas are: Chironico ( Switzerland ), Stanage ( UK ), Hueco Tanks ( Texas ), Val Masino and Val di Mello ( Italy ), Castle Hill ( New Zealand ), Bishop ( California ), Joe's Valley ( Utah ), Yosemite ( California ), Rocktown ( Georgia ), Rocklands ( South Africa ), Cocalzinho de Goiás ( Brazil ), Kjugekull ( Sweden ), Hampi ( India ) Horse Pens 40 ( Alabama ) and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch ( Arkansas ) amongst others.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

" South El Paso, Texas, July 1972.

The cane toad is native to the Americas, and its range stretches from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas to the central Amazon and southeastern Peru.

The cane toad naturally exists in South Texas, but attempts ( both deliberate and accidental ) have been made to introduce the species to other parts of the country.

Cascarones, a North-Eastern Mexican tradition now shared by many in South Texas, are an emptied and dried chicken egg stuffed with confetti and sealed with a piece of tissue paper.

The Gulf Coast of the United States, sometimes referred to as the Gulf South, South Coast, or 3rd Coast, comprises the coasts of American states that are on the Gulf of Mexico, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are known as the Gulf States.

Three-quarters of grits sold in the U. S. are sold in the South stretching from Texas to Virginia, also known as the " grits belt ".

Hoover managed to crack the so-called " Solid South ", winning such Democratic strongholds as Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Tennessee ; the Deep South stood with Smith.

* Tsesis, Alexander, Protecting Children Against Unnecessary Institutionalization, South Texas Law Review, vol.

By linking acquisition of new lands in Oregon ( with no slavery ) and Texas ( with slavery ), he hoped to satisfy both North and South.

Along with Texas, Memphis & North and South Carolina, Kansas City is a " world capital of barbecue.

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

More recently, Texas artists such as Chingo Bling, Juan Gotti and South Park Mexican have enjoyed steady sales, and have headlined a number of successful Southwest tours.

Lemmy premiered on March 2010 at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington and Pennsylvania also add the following questions to comply with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

The FLDS Church is estimated to have 10, 000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona ; Eldorado, Texas ; Westcliffe, Colorado ; Mancos, Colorado ; Creston and Bountiful, British Columbia ; and Pringle, South Dakota.

* 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

In 1927 Hubbard's father was sent to the U. S. Naval Station on Guam in the Mariana Islands of the South Pacific.

The U. S. Eighth Army, Seventh Air Force, and U. S. Naval Forces Korea are stationed in South Korea.

As such, there is not Title 32 United States Code equivalent for the sea services, even though Alaska, California, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas and Ohio have incorporated Naval Militia units.

During World War II the United States Naval Amphibious Training Base was established in Fort Pierce on North and South Hutchinson Island.

Dockside crane on wide gauge tracks at the former South Boston Naval Annex's Dry Dock Number 3

The South Denes area is home to the Grade I listed Norfolk Naval Pillar, known locally as the Britannia Monument, Nelson's Monument or Nelson's Column.

This copy is from the South Florida History Museum ; the original is in the Museo Naval de Madrid, Spain.

During the twentieth century, the town was the site of a portion of the landing strips of the South Weymouth Naval Air Station.

There are stops in South Weymouth ( alongside the Naval Air Station ) and Abington ( just south of Route 123 ), not far from the town line.

He was taken to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, but was transferred to jails in Virginia and South Carolina after it became known that he was a U. S. citizen.

The Charleston Naval Base remained the largest employer of civilians in South Carolina into the 1990s.

In 1829, the British Naval Expedition to the South Atlantic under the command of Captain Henry Foster in stopped at Deception Island, where it conducted a topographic survey and some scientific experiments, particularly pendulum and magnetic observations.

* USS Massachusetts ( BB-54 ) would have been a battleship of the first South Dakota class, canceled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1923.

* Ulithi South Pacific Naval Base George Spangler, March 1998

*, was a South Dakota class battleship laid down but soon canceled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1920

When World War II came, he found himself, to his great disappointment, in a shore billet at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D. C. After persistent effort on his part, he received orders to join the fighting in the South Pacific.

The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 limited naval armaments, causing the cancellation of the South Dakota-class battleships and halting all consideration of the " maximum battleships.

This resulted in adding fleet designations to the titles of the various forces in the theater: Naval Forces, Europe, became the Twelfth Fleet ; South Atlantic Force the Fourth Fleet ; and Naval Forces, Northwest African Waters, the Eight Fleet.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he entered the United States Naval Academy on September 23, 1902 and graduated with the Class of 1906.

The South Boston Naval Annex was located along the waterfront in South Boston.