The Confederacy

Collective term for those states which seceded from the Union in 1860 and 1861 and joined the Confederate States of America. Eleven Confederate states actually seceded and two other states, Missouri and Kentucky, sent delegates to the Confederate Congress, raised military forces for the Confederate Army, and from time to time had state governments which favored the Confederacy but did not formally secede from the Union.

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