Confederate States

If it be true that the people of the so-called Confederate States have no right to throw off the authority of the United States, it is equally true that they are bound at all times to share the burdens of Government.

History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

The north half of the US formed the Union in an attempt to restrict the South, known as the Confederate States, from conceding.

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Vigorous and skillful diplomatic efforts ensured European neutrality, thereby limiting the economic aid those nations provided the Confederate States.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Vigorous and skillful diplomatic efforts ensured European neutrality, thereby limiting the economic aid those nations provided the Confederate States.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Rives quit the half-completed project, returned to his native Virginia (his family owned slaves) and was named acting chief of the Engineer Bureau of the Confederate States.

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Most people, even in the South, would not even recognize the first National Flag of the Confederacy , which actually represented the Confederate States.

Race Baiting Alabama Councilman Plies Faux Outrage Over Confederate Flags on Graves - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

The most common regimental flag in the “western” armies was a derivitive of the “Bonny Blue Flag,” an early symbol of the Confederate States.

An Intolerance for Southern Culture - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

Other Armies of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States used different flags and there was no universal regimental flag in the Army of Tennessee or the Department of the Trans-Mississippi.

An Intolerance for Southern Culture - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

By the dawn of the Civil War just under 3.5% of the population of the Confederate States owned just under 40% of that population outright and held the rest, largely white, largely poor and poorly educated, firmly under their collective thumb.

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I'll bet they're all in the south Confederate States, where they are still fighting the civil war.

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