the Confederate States
noun/ðə kənˌfedərət ˈsteɪts/
/ðə kənˌfedərət ˈsteɪts/
[plural] (also the Confederacy)
- the eleven southern states of the US that left the United States in 1860–1, starting the American Civil WarCultureThe 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, North Carolina and Tennessee.
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the Confederate States