NYC secedes from the US in early 1861

Will it be relevant as it is likely for the surrender of these forts if they are southern. museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/conflict/us-civil-war-1861-1865/military-affairs-new-york-1861-1865

www.historynet.com/new-york-citys-secession-crisis/

altamontenterprise.com/05172021/confederate-attic-southern-general-upstate-new-york

Josiah Gorgas is the commander Frankford Arsenal, Bridesburg, PAhe could possibly use these weapons to help the northern secessionist movement which is realistically new York city is probably the only one going to succeed

journals.psu.edu/wph/article/download/4062/3879

www.archives.gov/philadelphia/exhibits/allegheny-arsenal/john-symington.html

I would love to cite the session with movement of the mid-Atlantic
unfortunately it is lost. www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-secession-movement-in-the-middle-states/

Mayor Fernando Wood was not the first to advocate NYC be a Free City, free of both New York State and the Union. The idea came forward during the 1860 campaign when some merchants feared a Republican take-over of the White House. Even a later Union General, Congressman Dan Sickles, Democrat, claimed “in the event of secession in the South, NYC would free herself from the hated Republican ‘State’ government of New York and throw open her ports to free commerce.” WCW 176-177. NYC merchants were the basis for the claim of any Free City advocate. But merchants ran neither the city nor the Republican Party. And it’s here that WCW begins the most interesting section of his book.
New York wasn’t just another State. It was the premier State, the most populous in the Union by nearly a million people. Its political clout was enormous. It had the leading newspapers in the country. It was the financial center for America. It had a leading candidate for President in 1860 in William Seward. So it is strange to suddenly read that the Republicans while governing the State were divided into three antagonistic groups: the Seward faction, former Whigs led by William H. Seward, Thurlow Weed, Seward’s political advisor and Henry Raymond of the New York Times. Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant and David Dudley Field led another group, former free-soil Democrats who were anti-Seward. Both were against coercion of the South and wanted compromise. But they were up against a stronger Republican group, the rank and file, who tolerated no compromise and unyieldingly supported the anti-compromise administration in Washington. When Sumter arrived, New York was primed to fight for “the flag”.