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The southern states were the Confederacy. All the states from Virginia down to Texas, Florida, Mississippi etc. were in the Confederacy.
Mississippi seceded from the Union earlier than Arkansas. A total of 11 states made up the confederacy: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
The Confederacy named moderate Jefferson Davis its president.
the confederacy was split in two after it lost strongholds along the mississippi river.
Vicksburg. It liberated the Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis represented Mississippi in the U.S. Congress before he was elected President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis, former Mississippi senator
Jefferson Davis, former Mississippi senator
Jefferson Davis was a Democratic senator from Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis was a Democratic senator from Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, the U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis, later president of the Confederacy commanded the 1st Mississippi during the battle of Buena Vista.
Jefferson F. Davis was the president of the Confederacy and prior to that he was a senator representing the state of Mississippi.
To gain control of the Mississippi River and defeat the Confederacy
The one and only president of the Confederacy was born in Kentucky, but also lived in Louisiana and Mississippi. He was serving as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi when Southern states began seceding from the Union in 1860 and 1861.
The Confederate state of Mississippi offered Jefferson Davis the position of major general. This was just prior to the Confederate Congress naming Davis the provisional president of the Confederacy.
the Mississippi