Confederate States of America

Confederate States of America
The confederacy formed by the eleven seceding southern states in 1861, which waged a war for four years against the United States, but never acquired the status of a government de jure or de facto as those terms are known and used in the law of nations. Thorington v Smith (US) 8 Wall 1, 19 L Ed 361.

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