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| | Confederate States Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Army of the Confederate States of America (ACSA) was the regular army, organized by Act of Congress on March 6, 1861. | | | The Confederate States Army (CSA) was formed in February 1861 to defend the Confederate States of America, which had itself been formed that same year when seven southern states seceded from the United States (with four more to follow). | | | The Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS) was authorized by Act of Congress on February 28, 1861, and began organizing on April 27. |
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| | Confederate Press |
| | It was fully implemented a year later on 22 February 1862 with the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President, Confederate States of America. | | | The victory of the just and honorable cause of the Confederate States of America and of the South, becomes possible only where there is faith in the ultimate outcome. | | | The right to rescind the Confederate States Constitution and to overthrow the Confederate States Government has never been granted to an aggressive and barbaric invading foreign power. |
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http://www.theconfederatepress.com
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| | Confederate States of America -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The Constitution of the Confederate States of America | | | It was the site of the founding of the Confederate States of America on Feb. 4, 1861, and was the Confederate capital until May 1861. | | | The capital of Alabama and seat of Montgomery County, Montgomery is known as the Cradle of the Confederacy. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9025147?source=RSSOTD
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| | The Confederate Society of America - Home Page |
| | The Confederate Society of America has created, with the help, assistance, cooperation and commitment of the following organization’s, a powerful Confederate Alliance that has already seen victories, particularly within several school systems across the South where our youth were ‘targeted’ because of their Confederate Heritage. | | | Lastly, The Confederate Society of America is always looking for Confederates with particular specialties that we could avail ourselves to. | | | The Southern Memorial Association of Washington County Arkansas owns and has seen to the care of the Confederate Cemetery at Fayetteville since 1873 |
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| | Journals of the Confederate Congress- Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 |
| | The Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America is a transcript of the Civil War time proceedings of the Provisional Congress, House and Senate, of the Confederate States of America. | | | Volume 1 contains the Journal of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, and an appendix containing the Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States. | | | The Journals of the Senate, 1st Congress of the Confederate States of America, are found in volume 2 (1st and 2nd sessions) and volume 3 (3rd and 4th sessions). |
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http://www.paperlessarchives.com/jcc.html
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| | Confederate States of America, Army, Military Commission: An Inventory of the Collection, 1862, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library |
| | Texas served the Confederate States of America during the war between the states. | | | Confederate States of America, Army, Military Commission Collection, | | | This was a military commission appointed in 1862 by General P. Hebert to hear cases in San Antonio, Texas, of persons arrested because of Union sympathies, chiefly among German Texans, during the Civil War. |
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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00120/tsw-00120.html
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| | CSAnet: Confederate Flags |
| | When Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the provisional government of the Confederate States of America on 18 February 1861, the Capitol Building in Montgomery flew the Alabama State Flag. | | | The 'Stars and Bars' was never established as an official flag of the Confederate States of America by the laws of the land. | | | This bill made the 'Stainless Banner' the 1st official National Flag of the Confederate States of America although it is historically known as the '2nd National Flag.' (See Note 1). |
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http://www.pointsouth.com/csanet/flagbody.htm
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| | Confederate States of America. The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America Passed at the Fourth Session of the First Congress, 1863-4 : Carefully Collated with the Originals at Richmond. |
| | Congress of the Confederate States of America from the State of Arkansas. | | | The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the commutation value of rations of the sick and wounded, and of all employees in hospitals, be fixed at such rates, not to exceed two and a half dollars, as the Secretary of War shall designate. | | | The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That chaplains in the army, in actual service in the field, shall be entitled to draw forage for one horse: Provided, The chaplain has a horse in his use. |
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http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/23conf/23conf.html
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| | Confederate States of America History CSA Profile Civil War Biography and Confederacy Arkansas Encyclopedia Essay |
| | The Confederate States of America (CSA, also known as the Confederacy) was the government formed by the southern states that seceded from the | | | The official flag of the Confederacy, and the one actually called the "Stars and Bars," was sometimes hard to distinguish from the Union flag under battle conditions, so the Confederate battle flag, the "Southern Cross," became the one more commonly used and, therefore, the one most people associate with the Confederacy today. | | | April 2, 1865- Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. |
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http://www.anythingarkansas.com/arkapedia/pedia/Confederate
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| | Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address |
| | The only Constitutional Congress at that time was the Congress of the Confederate States of America who had a ratified Constitution of their own. | | | It is the intention of the Constitutional Court to bring the thinking and intent behind the elements of the laws on Treason had been passed and were abided in by the Congress of the Confederate States of America in 1864. | | | First, their intent appears to be to stop, foil, confuse and confound any effort to restore a Southern Nation in Dixie called the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (CSA) and create as much dissension as possible among the various Confederate organizations. |
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| | THE CONFEDERATE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, Col. Sherod Hunter Camp 1525, SCV, Phoenix, Arizona |
| | Upon Granville Oury’s arrival at the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, events began to move swiftly toward the final resolution of Arizona’s status and its future relationship with the Confederate States of America. | | | I, John R. Baylor, lieutenant-colonel, commanding the Confederate Army in the Territory of Arizona, hereby take possession of said Territory in the name and behalf of the Confederate States of America. | | | The United States Congress passed its own "Act to Establish and Organize the Territory of Arizona" on February 24, 1863, over a year after the Proclamation of President Jefferson Davis had declared the Confederate Territory of Arizona to be in full force and operation. |
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| | Confederate States of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The legislative branch of the Confederate States of America was the Confederate Congress. | | | Fittingly, the Presidents of both the United States (Abraham Lincoln) and the Confederate States of America (Jefferson Davis) during the Civil War were born in Kentucky. | | | The President of the Confederate States of America was to be elected to a six-year term and could not be reelected. |
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| | Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States of America was first organized as a confederation under the Articles of Confederation and later became a federation with the ratification of the current US constitution in 1789. | | | A confederation is an association of sovereign states, usually created by treaty but often later adopting a common constitution. | | | Confederation of the Rhine (1806–1813) had no head of state nor a government |
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| | ISAR - Trent Lott |
| | One of Trent Lott's major activities was the support and promotion of Jefferson Davis, late former U.S. Senator of Mississippi, and President of the Confederate States of America. | | | Maybe this November we will go to bed on election night in the United States of America and wake up in the Confederate States of America. | | | The interviewer asked, "At the Convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Biloxi, Mississippi you made the statement that 'the spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform.' What did you mean by that?" Trent Lott responded. |
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http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/CCC/lott/crawfish.htm
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| | Amazon.com: The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism: Books |
| | The Confederate States of America, politically established in 1861 and militarily extirpated in 1865, was neither simply a historic accident initiated by radicals attempting to prolong the life of an anachronistic system of labor nor the product of "fire-eating" political opportunists seeking personal aggrandizement at the expense of their fellow citizens. | | | by Marshall L. Derosa "The Confederate States of America, politically established in 1861 and militarily extirpated in 1865, was neither simply a historic accident initiated by radicals attempting to..." (more) | | | The slavery provisions of the Confederate Constitution of were designed to eliminate this "agitation over slavery"...that is, conflict between States which have emancipated and those which have not...not to protect slavery itself. |
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| | Confederacy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | name commonly given to the Confederate States of America (1861–65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union. | | | Their extreme states’ rights views represented a logical development of the theory that had led the Southern states to secede, but their insistence on maintaining these views at a time when unity was imperative was an added factor in the Confederate defeat. | | | The Confederate cruisers built or bought in England were a scourge to the U.S. merchant marine, and later at the settlement of the Alabama claims, Great Britain was adjudged partly responsible for their depredations; but beyond this the Confederate missions of James M. Mason, John Slidell, William L. Yancey, and others in Europe achieved little. |
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| | Georgia Civil War Commission: The Jefferson Davis Society |
| | President Jefferson F. Davis, Confederate States of America 1861-1865 Jefferson F. Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky. | | | May we never forget that Jefferson Davis, even though a leader of "a cause that lost", as President of the Confederate States of America was indeed the commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy, and several state militias of a government whose history proved to have fought one of the mightiest wars of modern time. | | | The purpose of the society is to preserve the memory and protect the honor of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. |
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| | The Avalon Project : Confederate States of America |
| | Constitution of the Confederate States of America; March 11, 1861 | | | The Avalon Project : Confederate States of America | | | Message to Congress April 29, 1861 (Ratification of the Constitution) |
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| | Confederate States of America. "Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States ..." |
| | The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be an executive department to be known as the Department of Justice. | | | The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the passage of this act, the general staff of the army of the Confederate States shall consist of an Adjutant and Inspector General's Department, Quartermaster General's Department, Subsistence Department, and the Medical Department. | | | Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to instruct the Commissioners appointed by him, to visit the European Powers, to enter into treaty obligations for the extension of international copyright privileges to all authors, the citizens and subjects of the powers aforesaid. |
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| | Inportant Dates in Confederate History |
| | 11 1861 Confederate Congress adopts the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. | | | 4 1861 First National Flag of the Confederacy is display (although a resolution to officially adopt was never passed by the Confederate Congress) The very first flag of the Confederate States of America was raised by Miss Letitia Christian Tyler, granddaughter of former President John Tyler. | | | It signaled another act of aggression against the peaceful secession of the Confederate states. |
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| | A Brief History of the Confederate Flags |
| | The six southern states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida met February 4, 1861, in convention at Montgomery, Alabama, and established the Confederate States of America. | | | Missouri and Kentucky were prevented from seceding by the presence of federal troops, but both states sent unofficial representatives to the Confederate Congress and both supplied troops to the Confederate Army. | | | Johnston, the ranking Confederate officer, ordered all military units to use the flags of their states. |
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| | Robert Wilbanks: Sons Confederate Veterans Oury Camp |
| | It wasn't until January 18th, 1862 that he was recognized and seated by the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America. | | | On August 5th, 1861 Oury was elected as a delegate to the Confederate Congress from the territory of Arizona. | | | Eventually, Oury enlisted in the Confederate Army serving in Captain Frazer's Company known as Frazer's Arizona Rangers which was a part of Herbert's Cavalry Battalion, Arizona Brigade, organized in late 1862. |
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| | Journal of the Confederate Congress Home Page: U.S. Congressional Documents |
| | Volume 1 contains the Journal of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, and an appendix containing the Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States. | | | The Journals of the Senate, 1st Congress of the Confederate States of America, are found in volume 2 (1st and 2nd sessions) and volume 3 (3rd and 4th sessions). | | | The Journals of the House of Representatives of the 1st Congress of the Confederate States of America are found in volume 5 (1st and 2nd sessions) and volume 6 (3rd and 4th sessions). |
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| | Confederate Congress |
| | The Confederate Congress was the legislative body of the Confederate States of America, existing during the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865. | | | Like the United States Congress, the Confederate Congress consisted of two houses: the Confederate Senate, whose membership included two senators from each state (and chosen by the state legislature), and the Confederate House of Representatives, with members popularly elected by residents of the individual states. | | | Following the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861, the remaining states to secede sent delegates to the Confederate Congress, which met in three additional sessions between July 1861 and February 1862 in the Confederate Capitol of Richmond, Virginia. |
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| | Background of the Confederate States Constitution |
| | Under the terms of the Provisional Constitution, the Montgomery convention reconstituted itself as the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America until such time as a permanent constitution could be adopted and a permanent congress elected. | | | The Confederate Constitution is often seen as a document for a nation based on state rights and limited government. | | | As such, it was protected even more in the Confederate Constitution than it had been in the proslavery U.S. Constitution of 1787. |
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| | Mac-a-ro-nies |
| | If the Confederate States of America had won the war, it might well have maintained overt slavery or a form of apartheid into this century, as South Africa barely fell short of doing. | | | No person reading the articles of secession of South Carolina and its cohorts can doubt the Confederates considered slavery the primary reason they were leaving the Union -- unless he is being willfully obtuse. | | | However, the Confederate Constitution does outlaw foreign importation of slaves, eliminating competition and guaranteeing maximum profit from the natural increase of slaves owned by Southerners. |
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| | Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America |
| | On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president, not of the United States of America but of the Confederate States of America. | | | Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America | | | Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America |
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