1. The states that broke away were called The Confederate States of America. The states that remained were called the Union Forces.

2. They were organized as the Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis.

3. The southern states named themselves the “Confederate States of America” which survived until 1865 when Union troops finally took the capital, Richmond.

4. Soldiers of the new Confederate States of America shelled the Union base at Fort Sumter, built on an island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. They captured Fort Sumter after two days.

5. Long before before U-Boats or Red October, the Confederate States of America were fighting bloody battles against the North on foot, on horseback, and with at least one hand-powered submarine.

6. A war between the Southern or Confederate States of America and the Northern or Union States.

7. Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America,(sentence dictionary) was captured by Union soldiers at the end of the Civil War and indicted for treason in 1866.

8. This disk dates back to the Civil War, when it was used by the Confederate side -- CSA stands for Confederate States of America.

9. 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.

10. A total of eleven southern states left the Union. They formed the Confederate States of America. They wanted to continue their economic system based on agriculture and slavery.

11. A total of eleven southern states left the Union. They formed the Confederate States of America.