Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland stayed Union, but obviously some local sympathies for the South remained.
Basically the rest of the country stuck with the Union, but the West wasn't that important strategically, the war was generally fought from the Mississippi River Eastward to DC
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In terms of land surface:
the USA covered 2,236,006 square kilometres,
the CSA covered 2,011,840 " " " "
the "Neutral States" covered 312,473 " " " "
the Territories covered: (USA) 2,996,676 " " " "
(CSA) 181,090 " " " "
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The Battle Hymn of The Republic The Confederate's song was Dixie
he didn't "need" any land. he wanted land for POWER.
Gained control of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, two important waterways that extended down to Alabama. Won the Battle of Shiloh, where the highly-respected Confederate commander General Sidney Johnston was killed. This denied the Confederates the use of the main rail crossroads in the West. Launched the campaign against Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi. By the end of Year 2, Grant was well on the way to capturing this river-port, despite mighty obstacles, geographical and political.
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During Sherman's March to the Sea the troops were allowed to live off the land.