Maxcy Gregg Thomas C. Hindman Laurence M. Keitt Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar William Porcher Miles Edward A. O'Neal Edmund Pettus John A. Quitman John J. Pettus, Governor of Mississippi, who would lead the state in secession Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Governor of South Carolina; authorized firing on Star of the West Roger Atkinson Pryor Robert Rhett Edmund Ruffin Nathaniel Beverley Tucker Louis Wigfall William Lowndes Yancey David Levy Yulee References Notes Bibliography Walther, Eric H. (1992) The Fire-Eaters Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Walther, Eric H. (2006) William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War External links Great American History: The Fire-Eaters Secessionist organizations in the United States 1850s in the United States Secession crisis of 1860–61 American Civil War political groups History of the Southern United States Origins of the American Civil War