CONFEDERATE STATES

  

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CONFEDERATE STATES

Specialty Definition: CONFEDERATE STATES

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Literature

Confederate States The eleven States which revolted from the Union in the late American Civil War (1861-1866)- viz. Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida and Texas. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CONFEDERATE STATES

English words defined with "CONFEDERATE STATES": Al, Alabama, Ar, ArkansasBluegrass StateCamellia State, Confederate, Confederate flagDavisEmpire State of the South, Everglade StateFL, FloridaGa, GeorgiaHeart of DixieIndirect claimsJefferson DavisKentucky, KYLa, Land of Opportunity, LouisianaMagnolia State, Mississippi, MSOld Dominion, Old Dominion StatePeach State, Pelican StateStars and Bars, Sunshine StateVA, Virginia. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CONFEDERATE STATES": Federal StatesTOM. (references)

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Modern Usage: CONFEDERATE STATES

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I figure a mans only good for one oath at a time, and I took my oath to the Confederate States of America. (The Searchers; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CONFEDERATE STATES

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  • Confederate belles-lettres : a bibliography and a finding list of the fiction, poetry, drama, songsters, and miscellaneous literature published in the Confederate States of America (reference)

  • Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps & Covers 2003: Confederate States, Canal Zone, Danish West Indies, Guam, Hawaii, United Nations) (reference)

  • Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (reference)

  • A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America (reference)

  • Counterfeit Currency of the Confederate States of America (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CONFEDERATE STATES

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Photo Album: CONFEDERATE STATES

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Lieutenant John Wilkinson Confederate States Navy blockade runner Served on Coast Survey prior to Civil War. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Engraving, published in "History of the Confederate States Navy", page 505, depicting Confederate troops boarding Harriet Lane from C.S. gunboats Neptune and Bayou City. Credit: NAVY.

Portrait by Maliby Sykes. Semmes is depicted wearing the belt buckle of a Confederate States Navy Admiral. Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Vol. II, page 68. It depicts one of the two turret ironclads laid down in 1862 by Laird Brothers for the Confederate States. "El Tousson" was a cover name for the ship intended to become CSS North Carolina. Nominally under construction for Egypt, her true ownership became known and she was seized by the British government in 1863, purchased for the Royal Navy in 1864 and completed in October 1865 as HMS Scorpion. Credit: NAVY.

Halftone of a photograph taken in 1861, just before he entered the Confederate States Navy. Credit: NAVY.

Photographically reproduced sketch of the ship as the Confederate States Navy's school ship, with the James River Squadron, 1863-65. The original is inscribed with the name of Midshipman John Thomas Scharf, CSN, who served in Patrick Henry in 1863 and again in 1864-65. Credit: NAVY.

Captain J.R. Tucker, Confederate States Navy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Postmaster-general John H. Regan, officer of the Confederate States Government. Credit: Library of Congress.

Courthouse, Pittsboro, North Carolina. Note ever present Confederate States of America monument. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expression: CONFEDERATE STATES

Expression using "CONFEDERATE STATES": confederate States of America. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CONFEDERATE STATES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-e-e-f-n-o-r-s-s-t-t-t"

-4 letters: defenestrates.

-5 letters: confederates, defenestrate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CONFEDERATE STATES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 4E 46 45 44 45 52 41 54 45      53 54 41 54 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001110 01000110 01000101 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#78 &#70 &#69 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0046 0045 0044 0045 0052 0041 0054 0045      0053 0054 0041 0054 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37494840393839523554392535435543953

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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