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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...

a list of sovereign states with the dates of their formation (date of their independence or of their constitution), sorted by continent. This list includes...

Admission to the Union is provided by the Admissions Clause of the United States Constitution in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which authorizes the...

states by date of admission to the Union.) The year listed for each capital is the starting date; the ending date is the starting date for the successor...

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway...

was granted admission to the Confederacy as its purported 12th state. As a result of military operations, however, particularly the Battle of Pea Ridge...

North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was...

recognized by the Confederate States of America, and Kentucky was admitted to the Confederacy on December 10, 1861. Kentucky, the final state admitted to the Confederacy...

was made somewhere in the rebel Confederacy. In the intervening years, the politics surrounding the addition of 20 new states to the Union had been almost...

was one of the original seven slave states that formed the Confederate States of America in February 1861, triggering the U.S. Civil War. The state governor...

refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. As with those of other states, the Declaration of Secession was not recognized by the US government...

and the last state to officially secede from the Union to join the Confederacy. Tennessee had been threatening to secede since before the Confederacy was...

During the American Civil War, North Carolina joined the Confederacy with some reluctance, mainly due to the presence of Unionist sentiment within the state...

form the Confederacy on February 4, 1861. Mississippi's location along the lengthy Mississippi River made it strategically important to both the Union...

The American state of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state...

a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States, as well as other flags used within the United States, such...

was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment...

United States portal Confederate States of America - animated map of state secession and Confederacy List of battles fought in Missouri List of Missouri...

central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a...

advanced to defend Louisiana and the other Gulf states of the Confederacy were first, the idea of King Cotton; that an unofficial embargo of cotton to Europe...