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Montgomery's loss of the capital to them hampered their civic pride, but Wetumpka's merchants and planters continued to prosper throughout the antebellum period. They advocated a plan for a lock-and-dam construction to allow boats to travel up the Coosa to Rome, Georgia. William Lowndes Yancey was a prominent advocate for states' rights, slavery, and Southern secession.
Representatives from seven Southern states met at Montgomery in February 1861 to form the Confederate government. Jefferson Davis was elected their president and he took the steps of the Alabama State Capitol. The six states that had the highest number of slaves in the South were the first to secede. In the same year, most of Wetumpka’s male population went off to war. Federal troops did not cause any harm to Wetumpka. The Union troops did not enter the area until 1865. They were forced to reach Montgomery in order to take revenge on the Confederate capital.
The war veterans returned to a town and region that had suffered a complete economic collapse. The reconstruction government created a new state plan in 1866. Elmore County was formed from parts of Coosa and Montgomery counties. Wetumpka is its county seat.
