Confederate States of America (A Southron World)

The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and the CSA) is a nation which was set up in 1861 by eleven southern slave slates of the United States of American that had declared their seccesion from the U.S.. The CSA's de facto control over its claimed territory varied during the course of the War of Southon Independence, depending on the success of its military in battle.

Asserting that states had a right to secede, seven states declared their independence from the United States before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President on March 4, 1861; four more did so after the War of Southern Indepdence began at the Battle of Ft. Sumter (April 1861). The government of the United States of America (The Union) regarded seccesion as illegal and refused to recognize the Confederacy. At first British and French commercial interests sold warships and materials to the Confederacy, but soon after the Confederate victory at the Battles of Gettysburg and Philadelphia, France passed a motion in November of 1863 declaring they recognized the Confederate States of America has a country. Soon after, Queen Victoria stated that the Confederate States were to be considered their "Most Favoured Nation".

The CSA effectively won it's indepdence from the United States in 1867 after General Ulysses S. Grant surrendered to General Robert E. Lee after Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia captured Washington, D.C. and President McClellan. With McClellan a Confederate Prisoner, Vice-President Pendleton was sworn in as President, only for the purpose of negotiating with incoming Confederate President Stephens about the Independence of the Confederacy and the defeat of the Union. Many though that the Confederacy was going to demand vast ammounts of land, with the help of England and France, the Confederate States could take over the entre Union if they wished. However, the Confederates only wanted to control the states that had secceded (This included Missouri and Kentucky), Kansas, and the New Mexico and Arizona Territory. It relenquished all claims to the the land they had gained in the Northern theater, but proclaimed that President McClellan would remain a Prisoner of War and the United States was to pay for all damage done to Confederate Property.