|Confederate States of America| Deo Vindice (Latin) "Under God,
our Vindicator" Confederate States of America in 1862
|Languages||English (de facto)| |-||Lower house||House of
Representatives| |Historical era|| American Civil War |
|-||Confederacy formed||February 4, 1861| |-||Constitution
created||March 11, 1861| |-||Battle of Fort Sumter||April 12,
1861| |-||Siege of Vicksburg||May 18, 1863| |-||Military
collapse||April 9, 1865| |-||Confederacy dissolved||May 5, 1865|
|-||18601||1,995,392 km² (770,425 sq mi)| |Density||4.6 /km²
(11.8 /sq mi)| The Confederate States of America (CSA), also
known as the Confederacy, was a government set up from 1861 to
1865 by a number of Southern slave states that had declared
their secession from the United States. The Confederacy
recognized as members eleven states that had formally declared
secession, two additional states with less formal declarations,
and one new territory. Secessionists argued that the United
States Constitution was a compact among states, an agreement