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3 days ago · Confederate States of America, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, prompting the American Civil War (1861–65). The Confederacy acted as a separate government until defeated in the spring of 1865.
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In this map of the division of the states in the American Civil War (1861–1865), blue indicates the northern Union states and light blue represents five Union supporting southern slave states (border states) that primarily stayed in Union control though Kentucky and Missouri had dual competing Confederate and Unionist governments. Red ...
Map of the Confederate States with names and borders of states. A Confederate state was a U.S. state that declared secession and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
Nov 9, 2009 · The city was soon filled with some 1,000 government members, 7,000 civil servants, and scores of rowdy Confederate soldiers itching for battle. The First Battle of Bull Run took place on July 16 ...
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The Confederate States of America was the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war (the American Civil War) until defeated in the spring of 1865.
Contents. 1 History. 1.1 Secession process December 1860-May 1861. 2 Government and politics. 2.1 Constitution. 2.2 Civil liberties. 2.3 Capital. 2.4 International diplomacy. 3 Confederate flags. 3.1 Political leaders of the Confederacy. 3.1.1 Executive. 3.1.2.1 Sessions of the Confederate Congress. 3.1.3 Judicial. 4.1. 4.2 River system.
Jun 10, 2022 · The Confederate States of America (informally, the Confederacy) was a government created from an alliance of eleven southern states that had seceded from the United States between December 1860 and April 1861.
