Neither the 13 stars found on the flag represented the 13 Colonies.
There are no more confederate states as they were dissolved after they lost the Civil War. Border states are just states that share a boder with either Canada or Mexico.
The Unions states on the Confederate border were: Kentucky Missouri MarylandDelawareAnd until 1862, the District of ColumbiaAlso from 1863, the newly-created West Virginia Confederate states bordering on the Union were: Texas Arkansas Tennessee Virginia
Confederate States of America
Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis served as President of the Confederate States throughout the Civil War.
They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)
The Civil War was a war between the Confederate States of America and the Union. So, the Confederate states were important because they were one of the two warring countries.
The Confederate border states were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states were geographically located on or near the border between the North and South, they did not secede from the Union to join the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
The Capitol of the Confederate States of America was in Richmond, Virgina
Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the Confederate States of America.
Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the CSA during the civil war, even though it was near the border. D.C. was in the next state over from Virginia, surprisingly.
These were the two biggest border-states - that is, slave-states of the Upper South, that had stayed loyal to the Union. With these states, Lincoln had to be especially diplomatic, to persuade them not to go Confederate.