As the war dragged on, with Confederate troops under Lee and other brilliant military minds winning more battles than they lost, it began to look as though the
Confederate States of America would truly become an independent nation.
Bowen's Spain and the American Civil War promises to "address a major deficiency in the historical literature of the American Civil War" by establishing the potential for Spanish support for the
Confederate States of America that could have altered the outcome of the conflict (p.
The political, economic, social, and military challenges facing the
Confederate States of America during the American Civil War have been well documented by generations of historians.
The
Confederate States of America was formed 150 years ago this year, and crushed after a bloody war 146 years ago.
New York Times bestselling author Swanson has taken his 2010 big hit, Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse (William Morrow, 2010), tweaked the title, and written a great, accessible account of these two riveting overlapping events in 1865--the assassination and subsequent majestic funeral of President Abraham Lincoln as it played out against the final days of the
Confederate States of America, which were embodied in the chase for CSA president, Jefferson Davis, who was mistakenly believed to have orchestrated Lincoln's murder.
First reporter: Jefferson Davis has just been sworn in as President of the
Confederate States of America!
When the
Confederate States of America formed, the loyalties of agents in Indian Territory provided the new government with an advantage that the United States ultimately lacked.
In his case, the financial innovation was newly printed money from the newly formed
Confederate States of America, and the lackadaisical enforcement was practiced by the federal government.
The Jefferson Davis Award is given annually to recognize outstanding narrative works relating to the origins, life, and legacies of the
Confederate States of America and the Civil War.
Pope Pius IX never actually signed any kind of alliance or "statement of support" with the
Confederate States of America, but to those who understand the nuance of papal protocol, what he did do was quite astonishing.
In 1861, the newly formed
Confederate States of America, attempting to force England into the Civil War as an ally or as the instigator of a compromise that would acknowledge Southern independence, unanimously adopted King Cotton diplomacy.
Reynolds, or Jefferson Davis, the President of the
Confederate States of America. Price shared the hardships of war with his men, and fought with them in the battles of Wilson's Creek, Lexington, and Pea Ridge.
Bush, Willa Cather, coal mining, the
Confederate States of America, Miles Davis, the Dust Bowl, the Enola Gay, the Free Soil Party, French and Dutch immigration, The Grapes of Wrath, William Randolph Hearst, indentured servitude, the Internet revolution, Henry Kissinger, the Ku Klux Klan, Malcolm X, muckraking, the My Lai Massacre, the Potsdam Conference, Students for a Democratic Society, the telegraph, weapons of mass destruction, and Brigham Young..
This, according to Dal Lago, "ultimately led both of them to oppose the centralizing policies of the national governments which they were part." (xiii) Coincidentally, in 1861 nationalist ideologies in both "Souths" transformed the regions, respectively, into the
Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy.
