Confederate
Civil War Southerner
Confederate refers to the Confederate States of America, the secessionist government formed by eleven Southern states during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
A Confederate was a soldier or supporter of this cause: His great-great-grandfather fought as a Confederate.
The adjective describes things relating to this entity: the Confederate flag, Confederate monuments.
The term carries charged associations with slavery, rebellion, and contested heritage. (Lowercase confederate means an ally or accomplice.)
Before a war's start
- UnionNamed political entity
- slaveryOwnership of people
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
Gettysburg · Appomattox · abolition · emancipation · secession · cotton · tariffs · Dixie
Authority defier
- butternutTan elongated squash
- infantryGround combat troops
- cavalryMounted military force
- regimentColonel-led military unit
musket · bayonet · artillery · conscription · enlistment · uniform · brigade · skirmish
State of being divided
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- independenceFreedom from external control
- splitSeparation into parts
severance · dissolution · partition · schism · self-determination · disaffiliation · detachment · separation
antebellum
Before a war's start
- UnionNamed political entity
- slaveryOwnership of people
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
Reconstruction · Gettysburg · Appomattox · abolition · emancipation · secession · cotton · tariffs · Dixie · butternut
rebel
Authority defier
regiment · musket · bayonet · artillery · conscription · enlistment · uniform · brigade · skirmish · fortification
disunion
State of being divided
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- independenceFreedom from external control
split · severance · dissolution · partition · schism · self-determination · disaffiliation · detachment · separation · nullification
- SouthernersAlabaman, Alabamian, Alabamians, Arkansan, Arkansans
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- 1860sAbraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Appomattox, Emancipation Proclamation, Fort Sumter
- Deep SouthAlabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Mississippi Delta
- Motorcyclesmotorcycle, motorbike, cruiser, cruisers, sport bike
- Mississippi HistoryMississippi Delta, Mississippi River, Vicksburg, Jackson, Natchez
ConfederateUnion
Named political entity
Yankee · abolitionist · Federalist · blue · Lincoln
Confederatefederal
Divided governmental authority
unitary · centralized · unified · consolidated · unionist
- Confederate forcesSecessionist military units
- Confederate StatesSecessionist southern republic
- Confederate flagsEmblems of Southern secession
- Articles of ConfederationOriginal American governing charter
- Confederate ArmySecession states' military
- Iroquois ConfederacyNative American tribal league