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A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. [1] Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defence, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all its members.
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".
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]
A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980; Condica confederata or the confederate, a moth in the family Noctuidae; Confederate Motors, an American manufacturer of motorcycles; Battle of the Confederates, a battle in early Muslim history; Chevrolet Series BA Confederate, an automobile manufactured in 1932
In the context of the Civil War, "Union" is also often used as a synonym for "the northern states loyal to the United States government". [1] In this meaning, the Union included 20 free states (in the north and west) and four southern border slave states , Delaware , Maryland , Kentucky , and Missouri , though Missouri and Kentucky both had ...
The list of American Civil War (Civil War) generals has been divided into five articles: an introduction on this page, a list of Union Army generals, a list of Union brevet generals, a list of Confederate Army generals and a list of prominent acting Confederate States Army generals, which includes officers appointed to duty by E. Kirby Smith, officers whose appointments were never confirmed or ...
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 ...
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: pre 1692 - 1885 AD Sip Song Chau Tai: pre ...