States were the primary subdivisions of the Confederate States and possessed a number of powers and rights under the Constitution of the Confederate States, such as regulating intrastate commerce, running elections, creating local governments, and ratifying constitutional amendments. The Confederacy recognized 13 states, but Kentucky and Missouri were border states represented by governments-in-exile their pre-war state legislatures never voted to secede, but the Confederacy recognized pro-South provisional governments there as legitimate. Virginia was admitted into the Confederacy as a commonwealth rather than a state. Confederates were citizens of both the confederal republic and of the state in which they resided, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the Confederate government. Map of the Confederate States with names and borders of statesĪ state of the Confederate States of America was one of the constituent entities that the Confederacy recognized as sharing their sovereignty with the Confederate government.

What are the 13 commonwealth states