confederacy
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Across the Union and the Confederacy, soldiers went from the horrors of war to the suffering of captivity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
He also urged Lincoln to enforce more rigorously his recent order threatening retaliation against the Confederacy for executing captured black troops.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
The United Daughters of the Confederacy sponsored both.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
Most soldiers voted for Abraham Lincoln, who was campaigning to stay the course, defeat the Confederacy, preserve the Union, and end slavery.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2025
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, sometimes referred to as the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, developed in what is now the northeastern part of the United States.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing confederacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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Iroquois Constitution
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