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The Confederate States , officially the ___MASK80___ ( CSA or C . S .), commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was an unrecognized breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865 . It was originally formed by seven slave states  South Carolina , Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , Louisiana , and Texas  in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture , particularly cotton , and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African - American slaves . John Cabell Breckinridge ( January 16 , 1821  May 17 , 1875 ) was a lawyer , politician , and soldier from the U . S . state of Kentucky . He represented the state in both houses of Congress and in 1857 , became the 14th and youngest - ever Vice President of the United States ( 1857  61 ). He served in the U . S . Senate during the outbreak of the American Civil War , but was expelled after joining the Confederate Army . He remains the only Senator of the United States convicted of treason against the ___MASK73___ by the Senate . He was appointed Confederate Secretary of War late in the war . A member of the Breckinridge family , he was the grandson of U . S . Attorney General John Breckinridge , son of Kentucky Secretary of State Cabell Breckinridge and father of Arkansas Congressman Clifton R . Breckinridge . Roger Weightman Hanson ( August 27 , 1827 -- January 4 , 1863 ) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . The commander of the famed `` Orphan Brigade , '' he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro . He was nicknamed `` Old Flintlock . '' The Confederate States Army ( CSA ) was the military ground force of the Confederate States ( C . S .), also known as the " Confederacy ", while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War . On February 28 , 1861 , the Provisional Confederate Congress established a provisional volunteer army and gave control over military operations and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the Confederate president , Jefferson Davis , a graduate of the U . S . Military Academy and colonel of a volunteer regiment during the Mexican War . In March 1861 , the Provisional Confederate Congress established a more permanent Confederate States Army . The Orphan Brigade was the nickname of the First Kentucky Brigade , a group of military units recruited from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to fight for the ___MASK80___ during the American Civil War . The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war . Its original commander was Major General John C . Breckinridge , former Vice President of the United States and candidate for President , who was enormously popular with Kentuckians . Jefferson Finis Davis ( June 3 , 1808  December 6 , 1889 ) was an American politician who was a U . S . Representative and Senator from Mississippi , the 23rd U . S . Secretary of War , and the President of the ___MASK80___ during the American Civil War . He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union . His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country , and at home , the collapsing Confederate economy forced his government to print more and more paper money to cover the war ' s expenses , leading to runaway inflation and devaluation of the Confederate dollar . Secession ( derived from the Latin term " secessio ") is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity , especially a political entity ( a country ), but also any organization , ___MASK97___ or military alliance . Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals . The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865 . The ___MASK97___ faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the ___MASK80___ . The ___MASK97___ won the war , which remains the bloodiest in U . S . history .