1) What did the South fight for?

 

2) Name the states that seceded from the Union.

 

3) Was there a flag for the Confederate States?

     If so, describe it.

 

1) Page 8, question 32: The South fought to repel invasion and for the right to self-government, just as the fathers of the American Revolution had done.

 

2) Page 9, question 36: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky

 

3) Page 11, question 53: Yes, On March 6, 1861 at Montgomery, AL the Confederate Congress passed an act adopting the first flag of the Confederacy, known as the First National Flag or the "Stars and Bars".  page 12, question 55: The flag has seven stars in a circle on a blue field or canton and two red stripes and one white one. The stars represent the initial number of states that seceded. Additional stars were later added as other states came into the Confederacy for a total of 13.

 

General Lee wrote many letters to former soldiers advising them to submit to the established government and urged them to be law-abiding citizens.

 

What was General Lee's famous reply to a woman who expressed bitter emotion over the War?

 

"Madam, do not bring up your sons in hostility to the United States. Remember, we are one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feelings, and bring your children up Americans."

    Excerpt from General Robert E. Lee, The Christian Soldier, Woodhouse & Parham, Richmond, 1873. pg. 172