CONFEDERATE STATES


Meaning of CONFEDERATE STATES in English

( also the Confederacy )

the 11 southern states that left the US in 1861 to form a new nation. This caused the American Civil War . The President of the Confederate States was Jefferson Davis and their capital city was first Montgomery , Alabama , and later Richmond , Virginia . The Confederate States, in their order of leaving the Union, were South Carolina , Mississippi , Florida , Alabama, Georgia , Louisiana , Texas , Virginia, Arkansas , Tennessee and North Carolina .

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