Confederate States of America

American  

plural noun

1. the group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61.

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Confederate States of America British  

plural noun

1. history the 11 Southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi) that seceded from the Union in 1861, precipitating a civil war with the North. The Confederacy was defeated in 1865 and the South reincorporated into the US

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Example Sentences

Fifteen years earlier, civil war had broken out when 11 states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Could a traitor such as Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America and a former member of the Senate and the House from Mississippi, run for office?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2024

In Davis's eyes, there was no other choice, and he eventually headed to Montgomery, Alabama, where the heads of the recently seceded Southern states were planning to meet and form the Confederate States of America.

From Salon • May 14, 2022

When he died in 1862, he became the only president in history to be buried in a casket covered by the flag of another country — the Confederate States of America.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2020

Eleven southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow