Confederate

[ US /kənˈfɛdɝˌeɪt, kənˈfɛdɝət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a supporter of the Confederate States of America
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
    Confederate soldiers
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How To Use Confederate In A Sentence

  • Proper footgear for the Confederate infantry was in shortest supply.
  • Certainly his confessions might still be reliable, along with the confessions of Abu Zubaydah and other confederates being interrogated in secret.
  • I hate to say it, but there are at least eight colonies on the outer rim of Confederate territory that we have not had contact with since the end of the civil war.
  • But his infamy was sealed by the government's all-out campaign against his hapless sidekicks, falsely portrayed as part of a vast Confederate plot.
  • Many of the Confederates were of opinion that this decisive victory would be the end of the war, and that the North, seeing that the South was able as well as willing to defend the position it had taken up, would abandon the idea of coercing it into submission. With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War
  • Confederate stuffed port-fires with turpentined cotton and shot them into rollers only a few yards off. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
  • On the way out, I was stuck behind a guy pulling a howitzer on a trailer that was covered in confederate flag stickers.
  • You could do this with a vine such as Carolina jessamine or Confederate jasmine.
  • A riot began when drug traffickers tried to free their jailed confederates.
  • The confederates then passed out from the council chamber into the grand hall; each individual, as he took his departure, advancing towards the Duchess and making what was called the "caracole," in token of reverence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
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