The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected ... while white soldiers received $13 per month, plus $3.50 for clothes. Black troops strongly resisted this treatment.

and that they are waging war in such corporate capacity under the corporate name of the "Confederate States," and that such major corporation is composed of minor corporations called States ...

Henrick chronicles the “valiant but ultimately doomed” efforts of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet to secede from and try to defeat the United States.