Confederate States

Confederate States
(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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