Confederacy
UNITED DAUGH- War he was in command of the United the Confederate States of America in States Naval Aviation Forces and was wounded on board the S. S. "Leinster" when she was sunk in the Irish Sea by a German submarine. He received many decorations from foreign countries for his service in the war and was a member of many naval and scientific societies.
CONE-SHELLS, or CONIDE, a family so called on account of their form. All the cones have a similar external outline; the aperture is long and narrow, the head of the living animal is more or less lengthened, the foot is splay and abruptly cut off in front, the tentacles are rather widely separate and the eyes are placed on these organs. The textile coneshells, brought from Mauritius, a handsome species 4 or 5 inches in length, are marked with narrow, angular lines of dark brown, variegated with dashes of yellow and irregular white spots. The Admiral cone-shell is similar in appearance but smaller, and both species haunt the fissures and holes in rocks and the warmer pools in coral reefs. They all take a moderate range of depth, varying from 1 to 40 fathoms.
CONESSIBARK, the bark of Wrightia take a moderate range of depth, varying of India, used as a tonic, a febrifuge, and an astringent in diarrhea.
CONEY ISLAND, a small island in the Borough of Brooklyn, about 10 miles S. E. of New York City. It is about 5 miles in length and from half to threequarters of a mile in width th; separated from the mainland by Coney Island creek.
It is connected with New York and Brooklyn by steam and electric railroads and steamboat lines. It is a noted day summer resort, and has numerous bathing houses, hotels, concert and other Brooklyn by steam and electric railroads and steamboat lines. It is a noted day electric lights, and a fine cycle path consummer resort, and has numerous bathlyn. Brighton and Manhattan have exing houses, hotels, concert and other resorts for the wealthier class. Coney Island was one of the first landing places of the Dutch, and for over 200 years was considered a worthless waste. In 1840 steamboats began making excursions there, and for 25 years it was a popular resort. In 1875 steam railroads were built, and since then the island has been the most popular resort in the immediciety founded at Nashville, Tenn., in TERS OF THE, a woman's patriotic so- 1894 to perpetuate the memory of those in the South who fought for or assisted their fight for independence. To be a member of the society one must be a female descendant of one who rendered service to the Confederacy, either civil or ICA, THE, the name adopted by the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERmilitary. There are chapters in all the Southern States, as well as elsewhere. about 100,000.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERey seceded from ICA, THE, the name adopted by the Southern States when they the Union and formed a government at Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 4, 1861. Delegates from the States of South Carolina, and Louisiana, adopted a Constitution and elected Jefferson Davis, of Misas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tensissippi, President, and Alexander E. Stephens, of Georgia, Vice-President.
Texas , nessee, and Virginia afterward joined the Confederacy. Missouri and Ken- tucky were always in dispute and had representatives in both the United tered into the formation of the Confed- States Congress and the Confederate States Congress. The States which eneracy had all passed ordinances of seces- sion, withdrawing from the Union in full legal right to do so, but were fully jus- tified in their action by circumstances confidence that they not only had the and the interests of their people. Hisconfidence that they not only had the and the interests of their people. Historical precedent certainly seemed to give them the right of withdrawal.
After the first gun had been fired by John Brown at Harper's Ferry and when Major Anderson marched out of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, both sections were wild with excitement and there seemed nothing left but to fight it out to the bitter end. The odds in numbers and resources were overwhelmingly in favor of the North. The States which adhered to the Federal government (not counting Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which furnished more troops to the Federal than to the Confederate armies) had a population of 20,000,000, while the white population of the Confederate States numbered only 5,000,000. The official reports of the Adjutant-General, United States army, show that there were actually mustered into the Federal armies during the war 2,778,304 men, while the Confederate Adjutant-General, Samactually mustered into the Federal ar- mies during the war 2,778,304 men, while the Confederate Adjutant-General, Sam- CONFEDERATION erates mustered into service only 600,000 men in all.
The South had to depend upon scant resources and material, and had no cause to be ashamed of its leaders, but could proudly point to its soldier-President, Jefferson Davis, and its generals, such as Robert Edward Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston, P. G. T.
Beauregard, "Stonewall" Jackson, Bedford Forrest, J. E. B. Stuart, Stephen D. Lee, Richard Taylor, Fitzhugh Lee, Wade Hampton, Kirby Smith, W. J.
Hardee, John B. Gordon, Jubal Á. Early, and others. وو It The Constitution of the Confederate States was modeled after that of the Federal Constitution, and in some important differences has won the approval of even Northern statesmen. It recognized Almighty God and invoked His favor and guidance. It guarded carefully the doctrine of the "sovereignty of each State." It expressly forbade the slave trade, or the importation of slaves from any foreign country other than the slave-holding States and Territories of the United States. It forbade "bounties" or "trusts" of any kind, and provided a "tariff for revenue." gave Cabinet officers the privileges of the floors of its Congress, allowed the President to veto any part art of a bill and approve the remainder, giving his reasons for such action, and fixed the term of office of the President at six years and made him ineligible for a second term.
The "Confederate States of America" passed away, but its survivors, their children and their children's children may proudly claim that in four short years the Confederacy made a name and a history which "the world will not willingly let die." See CIVIL WAR, AMERI- CAN.