Empire_State_of_the_SouthWordNet Explorer

a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line

the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston

a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans

state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War