Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Confederate States

The eleven States which revolted from the Union in the late American Civil War (1861-1866)- viz. Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida and Texas.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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