On this day in 1861, delegates from six states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana - met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new unified government, which ...

Virginia, Confederate States of America, 1861 Obverse Image: Sailor at left. Ship in center. Obverse Text: SIX MONTHS AFTER THE RATIFICATION OF A TREATY OF PEACE PETWEEN THE CONFEDERATE STATES AND THE ...

What is now called the Confederate flag was never the official banner of the Confederate States of America, ... It was actually a battle flag first used in 1861 by the Army of Northern ...

The United States of Confederate America. ... I came up behind a pickup truck with a Confederate-flag sticker on the ... above national identity when they sided with the Confederacy in 1861.

Georgia seceded from the Union in January 1861, and spelled out the reasons with a statement that’s 3,318 words long, including 35 references to “slave” and “slavery.”… ...

Money connected both issues—it would celebrate the new nation and finance the war. On March 9, 1861, the CSA authorized a national currency. Between 1861 and 1865, the new government issued ...

The "Stars and Bars" design proved to be ineffective for use in the battlefield because it looked too similar to the the United States' "Stars and Stripes" flag, causing confusion and friendly fire.

The first Confederate flag, called Stars and Bars, was intentionally designed to resemble the American flag after the secession of Southern states in 1861.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, CONTRACT BUREAU, RICHMOND, Va., July 18, 1861. SIR: The legislation of the Government of the Untied States, so far as it relates to mailable ...

Montgomery, Ala., was a crowded place on Feb. 4, 1861, as delegates to the Confederate Provisional Congress met for the first time. There were also military officers, local and out-of-state ...