Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Berber tribal confederation in south east Morocco. Powhatan Confederacy: late 16th cent. – 1677 AD: Indian Confederation of Algonquian-speaking people in modern day Virginia. Wabanaki Confederacy: 1606–1862 AD, 1993 AD-present: A group of Native American nations in Canada and the United States. Neutral Confederacy: 1615 - 1653: Iron Confederacy
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [1] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 5, 1865. [8]
Old Swiss Confederacy, a confederation that was the predecessor of the current Swiss state; Three Confederate States of Gojoseon, states thought to have existed in present day Korea during the Bronze Age; Northwestern Confederacy, a group of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region that united after the American revolution
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. The Confederacy recognized them as constituent entities that shared their sovereignty with the Confederate government. Confederates were recognized as citizens of both the federal republic and of ...
Confederate colonies were made up of Confederate refugees who were displaced or fled their homes during or immediately after the American Civil War. They migrated to various countries, but especially Brazil , where slavery remained legal , and to a lesser extent Mexico and British Honduras (modern Belize ).
Nearly 100,000 Unionists from the South served in the Union Army during the Civil War and Unionist regiments were raised from every Confederate state except for South Carolina. Among such units was the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment , which served as William Sherman's personal escort on his march to the sea.
The Confederate government avoided the term "civil war", which assumes both combatants to be part of a single country, and so referred to it in official documents as the "War between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America". [11] European diplomacy produced a similar formula for avoiding the phrase "civil war".
Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland. Advocacy groups: League of the South, [84] [85] [86] other neo-Confederate and non-confederate southern separatist groups. Deseret [87] Ethnic group: Mormons; Proposed state or autonomous region: Deseret