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Arkansas is a state located in the southeastern region of the ___MASK6___ . Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin , the Quapaw Indians . The state ' s diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains , which make up the U . S . Interior Highlands , to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands , to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta . The American Civil War was a civil war in the ___MASK6___ fought from 1861 to 1865 . The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the ___MASK75___ . The Union won the war , which remains the bloodiest in U . S . history . 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 ___MASK6___ ( 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 ___MASK6___ convicted of treason against the ___MASK6___ of America 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 . The Confederate States , officially the ___MASK75___ ( 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 . The Confederate States Secretary of War was a member of the Confederate States President ' s Cabinet during the American Civil War . The Secretary of War was head of the Confederate States Department of War . The position ended in May 1865 when the Confederacy crumbled during John C . Breckinridge ' s tenure of the office . The Secretary of War , a Confederate cabinet position , was the chief officer of the Confederate War Department . Answerable to Jefferson Davis , the Secretary of War controlled all matters regarding the army and Indian tribes , and had the right to appoint as many clerks as it found necessary . This designation allowed the Secretary of War to create what eventually became the biggest department in the Confederacy . Related to the war effort , the Secretary of War managed important aspects of the war effort like medical distribution , engineering devices ( pontoon bridges ) , prisoners of war and fort cessions . During the war the Confederate Secretary of War ' s report on the war effort became important information for the Confederate Congress and President Jefferson Davis . The President had the power to appoint and fire the Secretary of War for unnecessary , dishonest and inefficient work performance . The Secretary of War was also subject to impeachment proceedings from the Confederate Congress . A civil war , also known as an intrastate war in polemology , is a war between organized groups within the same state or country , or , less commonly , between two countries created from a formerly united state . The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region , to achieve independence for a region or to change government policies . The term is a calque of the Latin " bellum civile " which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the ___MASK42___ in the 1st century BC . The Vice President of the ___MASK6___ ( VPOTUS ) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the Federal government as President of the Senate under . Clifton Rodes Breckinridge ( November 22 , 1846  December 3 , 1932 ) was a Democratic alderman , congressman , diplomat , businessman and veteran of the Confederate Army and Navy . He was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family , the son of Vice President of the ___MASK6___ and Confederate General John C . Breckinridge and the great - grandson of U . S . Senator and Attorney General of the ___MASK6___ John Breckinridge . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity of the ___MASK6___ of America . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the ___MASK6___ federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). The Breckinridge family is a family of public figures from the ___MASK6___ . The family has included six members of the ___MASK6___ House of Representatives , two ___MASK6___ Senators , a cabinet member , two Ambassadors , a Vice President of ___MASK6___ and an unsuccessful Presidential candidate . Breckinridges have served as college presidents , prominent ministers , soldiers , theologians and in important positions at state and local levels . The family was most notable in the State of Kentucky and most prominent during the 19th century , during nearly one - third of which a member of the family served in the Congress of the ___MASK6___ . Below is a list of members . Kentucky , officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky , is a state located in the east south - central region of the ___MASK6___ . Kentucky is one of four U . S . states constituted as a commonwealth ( the others being Virginia , Pennsylvania , and Massachusetts ). Originally a part of Virginia , in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union . Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 ___MASK6___ .