Confederate States of America

State · 1861–1865 CE · at its largest around 1861 CE

The breakaway republic of eleven southern US slave states, whose secession led to the American Civil War and which collapsed upon Union victory.

Its battles, in Battle View

Battle of Gettysburg (1863 CE)

On its lands while it lasted

Abraham Lincoln (1809 CE – 1865 CE): 16th President of the United States, who led the Union through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and was assassinated in 1865.
Mark Twain (1835 CE – 1910 CE): American humorist and author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, set on the Mississippi River of his Hannibal boyhood.
American Civil War (1861–1865 CE): War between the Union and the Confederacy of southern slave states; the Union victory preserved the United States and ended slavery.
Battle of Gettysburg (1863 CE): Three-day battle in Pennsylvania that ended Lee's invasion of the North, with the highest casualties of the Civil War.
Emancipation Proclamation (1863 CE): Lincoln's executive order of 1 January 1863 declared enslaved people in Confederate-held areas free and allowed Black men to enlist in the Union army.
Gettysburg Address (1863 CE): Abraham Lincoln’s short speech of 19 November 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, framing the Civil War as a struggle for equality and government by the people.
Sherman’s March to the Sea (1864 CE): After taking Atlanta, Union General William T. Sherman led 62,000 soldiers across Georgia to Savannah, destroying railroads, crops and infrastructure in a campaign of hard war against the Confederacy.
Surrender at Appomattox (1865 CE): Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1865 CE): John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington on 14 April 1865; he died the next morning.
Thirteenth Amendment (1865 CE): Constitutional amendment ratified in December 1865 that abolished slavery throughout the United States.