Confederate States of America

Flag of the Confederate States of America (third and final version, from March 1865 onwards)

The Confederate States of America, Confederacy, or CSA, was a group of eleven southern states that attempted to secede in 1861 and then fought an unsuccessful war to try to expel federal forces. The Confederates wrote a constitution, set up a government, and printed paper money. President Lincoln's position was that the states could not leave, and were therefore in a state of rebellion and that the CSA should not be recognized, and he kept foreign powers from recognizing it.

The capital was in Richmond, Virginia. The Confederacy survived for a few weeks more after Richmond fell.

Ordinances of Secession and related Declarations

• South Carolina (December 20, 1860)
  • Declaration (December 24, 1860)
  • The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States (December 24, 1860)
• Mississippi (January 9, 1861)
  • Declaration
• Florida (January 10, 1861)
• Alabama (January 11, 1861)
• Georgia (January 19, 1861)
• Louisiana (January 26, 1861)
• Texas (adopted February 1, 1861; ratified February 23, 1861)
  • Declaration (February 2, 1861)
• Arizona Territory Ordinance of Secession (March 18, 1861)
• Virginia (adopted April 17, 1861; ratified May 23, 1861)
• Arkansas (May 6, 1861)
• North Carolina (May 20, 1861)
• Tennessee (adopted May 6, 1861; ratified June 8, 1861)
• Missouri (October 31, 1861)
• Kentucky (November 20, 1861)

Constitution

• Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America
• Constitution of the Confederate States of America

Army

• Uniform and Dress of the Army of the Confederate States, 1861 by Samuel Cooper Template:Ext scan link
• History of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, in the War Between the States, 1899 by Richard Lee Tuberville Beale