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4 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
1 day ago · Category. Portal. v. t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union.
- April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, (4 years, 1 month and 2 weeks)
- Dissolution of the Confederate States of America
2 days ago · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the former Confederate States of America into the United States.
4 days ago · Reconstruction refers to the period immediately after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population.
- Mark Zubarev
- 2015
3 days ago · Published posthumously in 1913 under the title A Confederate Girl’s Diary, Dawson’s personal account of the war years in Baton Rouge and New Orleans is structured by her keen eye for detail; likewise, Stone’s memoir Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone (1955), which recalls life in a northern Louisiana plantation, is also marked by a ...
3 days ago · Date accessed: 18 May, 2024. ‘We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies’. (1) These famous lines from Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address serve as a stark point of contrast in the introduction of Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South.
