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confed.

American  

abbreviation

  1. confederacy.

  2. confederate.

  3. confederation.


Confed. British  

abbreviation

  1. Confederate

  2. Confederation

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Reck'n et's neer onto three thousin' mile," drawled the Confed. weakly.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon

C. D., ill, 7Blue Ridge, 1, 35, 36Braxton's Confed. artillery, 9bread, corn-cob-meal, 44, 93, 100breakfast at Staunton, 32, 33breakfast at Tom's Brook, 21Breckenridge, Confed.

From Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 by Homer B. (Homer Baxter) Sprague

Tom Tuck's rooster was named Southern Confederacy; but this was abbreviated to Confed., and as a pet name, they called him Fed.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins

Lightly they'll talk of the Southern Confed. that's gone,        And o'er his empty carcass upbraid him;      But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on,        In the place where they have laid him.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins

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