a person from the south in the civil war
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A rebel was a confederate so a rebel just was a southern man in the civil war,
The Confederacy, The Rebel States, Dixieland.
South-- the southern states seceded from the Union, while the northern states remained in the Union.
It never did. The Union referred to the South as 'the rebel states'. However, by announcing a blockade of the Southern ports, the Union appeared to be giving the Confederacy the status of a separate nation.
According to Governor William Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon was the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia.