it is called the rebel states and the confederacy or confederate side.
The rebel southern states
The Confederacy, The Rebel States, Dixieland.
The Rebel States were the Southern states - which formed the Confederacy.
The Rebel States
No. Lincoln was the newly-elected President that the Southern states were rebelling against.
The South - the Rebel States.
Because freeing southern states weakened the confederacy, the proclamation could be seen as a military action.
A rebel was a confederate so a rebel just was a southern man in the civil war,
South-- the southern states seceded from the Union, while the northern states remained in the Union.
In both cases, the United States provided weapons and funds to anti-government rebel groups.
A common nickname for Confederate soldiers because their opposition to the federal government was "rebel." While once a pejorative term, the Confederates decided to embrace the name, and turn it into a symbol representing southern identity and pride.