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|established    =February 4, 1861

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|dissolved      =May 10, 1865

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|capital =Richmond, Virginia

|February 4, 1861

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|government =Confederate republic

|Ended

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|April 9, 1865

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|Secretary of War

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|Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, John C. Breckinridge

|president =Jefferson Davis

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|Secretary of the Navy

|chancellor =

|Stephan Mallory

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|Robert Toombs, Robert M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin

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The '''Confederate States of America''' (informally, the ''Confederacy'') was a government created from an alliance of eleven southern states which had seceded from the [[United States]] between December 1860 and April 1861.  The [[American Civil War]] that was begun by the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter proved disastrous; four years of savage fighting ended with the fledgling government defeated and dissolved, and left the southern states a financial and industrial wreck.

The '''Confederate States of America''' (informally, the ''Confederacy'') was a government created from an alliance of eleven southern states which had seceded from the [[United States]] between December 1860 and April 1861.  The [[American Civil War]] that was begun by the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter proved disastrous; four years of savage fighting ended with the fledgling government defeated and dissolved, and left the southern states a financial and industrial wreck.