Eleven seceded states, at war with the Union for four years.
Defeated and dissolved; Lee surrendered at Appomattox, 9 April 1865.
The standard one-volume history of the Civil War era, covering the Confederacy's rise and defeat.
A focused political and social history of the Confederate state itself.
The defining American novel of the Civil War South, set on a Georgia plantation and in besieged Atlanta squarely within the Confederacy's 1861-1865 span.