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The Dis|United States. Or the Southern Confederacy.


Mapping the hundreds of Confederate statues across the US

The states, in order of their secession, were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, ...

Confederate States - Legends of America

The Confederate States of America was organized at a congress of delegates from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, which met ...

Out of War, a New Nation | National Archives

Southern anxiety grew as settlers poured into northern territories that were sure to join the Union as free states, thereby tipping the ...

What This Cruel War Was Over - The Atlantic

… A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high ...

Another symbol of the Confederacy falls - AAIHS

The Civil War became a “lost cause” for the Confederacy — a noble brother's war fought to champion states' rights, to defend southern soil or ...

England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy

England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy by Sargent, Fitzwilliam - ISBN 10: 0837127688 - ISBN 13: 9780837127682 - Negro Universities Press ...

Florida's Role in the Civil War: "Supplier of the Confederacy"

It became a separate state from the Union. By February, Florida and six other southern states had formed a new government, the Confederate States of America.

North and South in 1861 - NCpedia

This disparity became even more pronounced as the ever-tightening blockade gradually cut off the Confederacy from foreign imports. The North had more mules and ...

Myths, Legends, and the Search for Truth - The Battle of Franklin Trust

This is sometimes said to place the efforts of the Confederate States and Southern soldiers on par with the Founders and those who fought against Great Britain.

The Road to War (1846-1860) - 2002-04 - Mississippi History Now

Mississippi's secessionist journey resembled that of many other southern states. Secessionist sentiment ebbed and flowed until momentum united behind leaving ...

How the South Won the Civil War | The New Yorker

When the Confederate States of America seceded, the response of the United States of America was firm: dissolving the Union was ...

Confederate States of America | Military Wiki - Fandom

The Confederate States of America was created by secessionists in Southern slave states who refused to remain in a nation that they believed was turning them ...

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, fabricated m

The committee was truly drawing a line in the sand with this pamphlet, stating that “all library authorities in the Southern. States are ...

Essay 4: Teaching about the Confederacy and Race Relations

In 1859, Arkansas passed a law requiring all freed people — not just new ones — to leave the state by the end of the year. After secession, the new government ...

North Versus South – HIS114 – United States to 1870

The primary advantage that the Confederacy or South held in the war was that it was fighting a defensive war. For the Union to win the war, they had to invade, ...

Civil War and Reconstruction - Texas History

And despite the formal end of slavery in the United States, Texas and other former Confederate states enacted restrictions for African Americans that severely ...

The Story Behind the Battle of Fort Sumter, April 1861 - PMC

The South aimed no threat at the North. The Confederate States of America wanted only an uncontested divorce. The property settlement was minimal: two forts ...

The Connection Between the United Daughters of the Confederacy ...

The Lost Cause myth framed the Confederate cause as a noble fight to defend states' rights rather than preserve slavery and viewed ...

Why Confederate monuments are coming down now | Stanford Report

This was the same period that saw the violent restoration of white supremacy in the southern states, including formal disfranchisement of black ...

U.S. Senate: The Civil War: The Senate's Story

The Northern states, having abolished slavery, sought to prevent its spread, while the Southern states, having grown more dependent on slave labor, asserted the ...