Confederate States, the name adopted by the confederacy formed by the eleven southern and slaveholding states which seceded from the American Union in 1860-61, and established a government which lasted till the close of the great civil war in 1865. See UNITED STATES. The Confederate States were South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia (without West Virginia), Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
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