When secession passed, Alcorn cast his lot with the Confederacy and was selected as a brigadier general by the state.

Ryan financed and selected Charles Hoffbauer to create a series of paintings, " The Four Seasons of the Confederacy ", commissioned for a major gallery in what is now the Virginia Historical Society.

A group of Mohawks led by John Deseronto selected the Bay of Quinte because it allegedly was the birthplace of Tekanawita, one of the founders of the original Iroquois Confederacy in the 12th century.

Because of the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, only two Congressional elections were ever held ; the Second Confederate Congress was selected in November 1863 but served only one year of its two-year term.

He also served as a member of the Texas delegation to the Provisional Confederate Congress, which formed the provisional government of the Confederacy, and which selected Jefferson Davis as its president.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

Early in the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis decided that the Confederacy would attempt to hold as much of its territory as possible and he distributed its military forces around its borders and coasts.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Jefferson Davis considered him the best general in the country ; this was two months before the emergence of Robert E. Lee as the pre-eminent general of the Confederacy.

Jefferson Finis Davis ( June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889 ) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history.

William T. Sutherlin Mansion, Danville, Virginia, temporary residence of Jefferson Davis and dubbed Last Capitol of the Confederacy

In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a transcontinental highway to be built through the South.

Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy.

One block south of the Capitol is the First White House of the Confederacy, the 1835 Italianate-style house in which President Jefferson Davis and family lived while the capitol of the Confederacy was in Montgomery.

Breckinridge saw that further resistance on the part of the Confederacy was useless and worked to lay the groundwork for an honorable surrender, even while President Jefferson Davis fiercely desired to continue the fight.

During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open.

* Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy

Geary County was originally named Davis County, but the name was changed after Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy.

Jefferson Davis Parish is named after the president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis.

At the end of the Civil War, with the Confederacy in shambles, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Virginia and headed south, stopping for a night in Abbeville at the home of his friend Armistead Burt.

In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $ 100, 000 bond for the release of former president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis.

He fought in support of Col. Jefferson Davis and the Mississippi Rifles, which earned him the admiration of the future U. S. Secretary of War and president of the Confederacy.

Reference is made to the date May 10, 1865, by which time the Confederate capital of Richmond had long since fallen ( in April ); May 10 marked the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the definitive end of the Confederacy.

It was also said that many of his supporters incorrectly believed he was of familial relation to the Jefferson Davis who was the President of the Confederacy, a belief that Davis did nothing to discourage, and which he may have covertly encouraged .< ref name =" funeral ">

Mississippi Senator and Secretary of War Jefferson Davis ( who would later become President of the Confederacy ) was in charge of the Capitol construction and its decorations.

During the Mexican War McNair joined the 1st Mississippi Rifles under the command of Colonel Jefferson Davis, who would later become President of the Confederacy.

It is a satire on Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy, and perhaps refers to the Hampton Roads Conference.

Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party ( since the Confederacy had no political parties ).

When Virginia joined the Confederacy, Davis moved his government to Richmond in May 1861.

Davis evaluated the Confederacy's national resources and weaknesses and decided that, in order to win its independence, the Confederacy would have to fight mostly on the strategic defensive.

Since the Confederacy was founded, among other things, on states ’ rights, one important factor in Davis ’ choice of cabinet members was representation from the various states.

Davis issued his last official proclamation as president of the Confederacy, and then went south to Greensboro, North Carolina.

" Davis stated that men in the Confederacy had successfully fought for their own rights with inferior numbers during the Civil War and that the northern historians ignored this view.

Breckinridge went with Davis during the flight from Virginia as the Confederacy collapsed, while also assisting General Joseph E. Johnston in his surrender negotiations with William T. Sherman at Bennett Place.

But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 -- nearly a month before hostilities began -- included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede.

Land warfare in the East was inconclusive in 1861 – 62, as the Confederacy beat back Union efforts to capture its capital, Richmond, Virginia, notably during the Peninsular Campaign.

* 1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.

In 1861 the Confederacy claimed the southern tract as its own Arizona Territory and waged the ambitious New Mexico Campaign in an attempt to control the American Southwest and open up access to Union California.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.

Lamar County was one of the few Texas counties that voted against secession, though many of its inhabitants later served in the Confederacy.

They were mainly small states, though some confederations of republics seem to have formed that covered large areas, such as Vajjian Confederacy, which had Vaishali as its capital around 600 BC.

In 1842, the Sikh Confederacy, which at the time ruled over much of Northern India ( including the frontier regions of Jammu and Kashmir ), signed a treaty which guaranteed the integrity of its existing borders with its neighbours.

The amendment also includes a number of clauses dealing with the Confederacy and its officials.

For example, during the Civil War several British and French banks had lent large sums of money to the Confederacy to support its war against the Union.

He later remarked that the carnage at Shiloh had made it clear to him that the Confederacy would only be defeated by complete annihilation of its army.

* August 4 – The Great Peace of Montreal is signed, ending 100 years of war between the Iroquois Confederacy and New France and its Huron and Algonquian allies.

After the Civil War, the US government required the Cherokee Nation to sign a new treaty, because of its alliance with the Confederacy.

The bill required voters to take the " ironclad oath ", swearing they had never supported the Confederacy or been one of its soldiers.

On Funafuti and Vaitupu the founding ancestor is described as being from Samoa ; whereas on Nanumea the founding ancestor is described as being from Tonga ; These stories can be linked to what is known about the Samoa-based Tu ' i Manu ' a Confederacy, ruled by the holders of the Tu ' i Manu ' a title, which confederacy likely included much of Western Polynesia and some outliers at the height of its power in the 10th and 11th centuries.

The Colorado town deliberately changed the spelling of its name when its namesake joined the Confederacy.