Confederacy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Confederate States of America (1861 65), the government established...the Southern states of the United States after their secession from...South which followed, see Civil War .) Formation of the Government...Carolina, the first Southern state to secede (Dec. 20, 1860...and Texas. On Feb. 4, 1861, delegates from these states...the Constitution of the United States, even repeating...more effective, and by 1865 one of every two blockade...With the men at war, the women of the Confederacy carried...America, 1861 1865 ("A History of the South" series...