No, they were known as the Confederate Union. They had a whole different flag as well.
South Carolina seceded from the Union before the Civil War.
South Carolina
South-- the southern states seceded from the Union, while the northern states remained in the Union.
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The preservation of the union
At the start of the U.S. Civil War, South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860.
South Carolina. Texas.
Because the south seceded to form the union. That's the reason there was a civil war.
Simply to win the south back after they seceded from the union
In the American Civil War, both sides were Americans fighting. The South had seceded from the Union and made their own "country" called the Confederacy. During the Civil War they were mainly called the Confederates, or the Rebels. The North was considered the Union, the United States of America. On their uniforms, the Union soldiers had a belt buckle that said US on it.
Seven states seceded from the Union prior to the outbreak of the Civil War: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. After the Civil War started, four more states seceded: Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Eleven other states joined them and the civil war began.