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Confederate gold
Confederate gold: the Confederate treasury's gold and silver, carried by wagon from Danville with Jefferson Davis in April 1865 and partly robbed at Chennault Plantation, Georgia, on May 24, 1865; source of enduring treasure legends.
Confederate Memorial Day
Confederate Memorial Day, also called Confederate Decoration Day, is a spring observance honoring Confederate Civil War dead, begun by the Columbus, Georgia Ladies Memorial Association on April 26, 1866, and observed on varying state dates from April to June.
Confederate orders of battle
A Confederate order of battle lists the Confederate commanders and units, arranged from corps through divisions and brigades to regiments, that took part in a Civil War battle or campaign.
Confederate States Army
Confederate States Army, land force of the Confederate States of America (Provisional Army, Army of the CSA), raised from scratch in 1861, fought the Union in the Civil War, peaked above 600,000 men, adopted America's first national draft in 1862, and was defeated in 1865.
Confederate States dollar
The Confederate States dollar, nicknamed the greyback, was the paper currency of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, worth almost nothing by April 1865.
Confederate States Marine Corps
The Confederate States Marine Corps, also known as the Confederate Marine Corps, was the naval infantry branch of the Confederate armed forces from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War.
Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America (CSA): unrecognized republic formed in February 1861 at Montgomery, Alabama, by eleven seceding Southern states under Jefferson Davis, with a slavery-protecting constitution adopted March 11, 1861; dissolved at Appomattox, April 9, 1865.
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT, Séliš, Ql̓ispé, Ksanka) unite three tribes on Montana's Flathead Reservation under the 1855 Hellgate Treaty, governed by a ten-member council with a 2015 water rights compact.
Confederation
Confederation: a union of sovereign states, such as the early United States under the Articles of Confederation or the European Union, whose weak central body acts only with member consent, unlike a federation.
Confederation Liberty and Independence
Confederation Liberty and Independence (Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość) is a Polish far-right, hard-Eurosceptic alliance founded in 2018 from KORWIN, the National Movement, and the Confederation of the Polish Crown; it holds 18 Sejm seats and 6 MEPs after 2024.
Confederation of British Industry
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is the United Kingdom's principal business lobbying and advocacy organization, founded in 1965 and headquartered at Cannon Place in London.
Confederation of Indian Industry
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is a not-for-profit, industry-led business association headquartered in New Delhi. Founded in 1895, it represents around 9,700 direct members and over 365,000 enterprises.
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, CONAIE, is Ecuador's national umbrella organization of indigenous peoples, founded in 1986 and known for the 1990 indigenous uprising.
Confederation of Mexican Workers
The Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) is Mexico's largest national labor federation, founded in 1936 under Lázaro Cárdenas. It resulted from consolidating labor movements after the Mexican Revolution.
Confederation of the Equator
The Confederation of the Equator (Confederação do Equador) was a republican, federalist revolt proclaimed in Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1824 against Emperor Pedro I's centralizing monarchy.
Confederation of the Polish Crown
Confederation of the Polish Crown (Konfederacja Korony Polskiej, KKP) is a hard-right Catholic-royalist Polish party founded by Grzegorz Braun in 2019, formerly part of the Confederation alliance, which took 6.34% in the 2025 presidential first round and holds a three-seat Sejm circle.
Confederation of the Rhine
The Confederation of the Rhine (German: Rheinbund) was a confederation of German states formed in 1806 under Napoleon, whose members' secession ended the Holy Roman Empire.
Confederation of Vilnius
The Confederation of Vilnius refers to six general confederations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, armed unions of magnates and nobles proclaimed in Vilnius between 1703 and 1792.
Confederation Riots
The Confederation Riots were an 1876 outbreak of violence in Barbados, where African-Barbadian laborers plundered plantations and ended a British plan to confederate the island with the Windward Islands.
Conference at the Highest Court
The Conference at the Highest Court (Конференция при высочайшем дворе) was the highest state institution of the Russian Empire, created by Empress Elizabeth in 1756 and abolished in 1762.
Conference USA
Conference USA (CUSA), NCAA Division I FBS athletic conference founded April 24, 1995 in Chicago, now based in Dallas with 12 members after Delaware and Missouri State joined in 2025; members' 2024-25 athletics revenue $415.4 million.
Confession (religion)
Confession, also called the Sacrament of Confession or Reconciliation of a Penitent, is the acknowledgment of sins to God, a community, or a minister as part of repentance and forgiveness.
Confessionalism (politics)
Confessionalism (muhasasah ta'ifiyah) allocates government offices, legislative seats, and public jobs by religious community, Lebanon being the paradigm case with reserved Maronite, Sunni, and Shia offices and a 128-seat Christian-Muslim parity.
Confessions (Augustine)
The Confessions, also known as Augustine's Confessions, is a thirteen-book work by Augustine of Hippo, written around 397–400, recounting his conversion and reflecting on memory, time, and Genesis.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004) is John Perkins's autobiographical claim that, as chief economist at Chas. T. Main, he inflated growth forecasts to trap developing countries in debt serving U.S. corporate interests. A bestseller, its NSA-recruitment and assassination claims remain contested.
Confidence
Confidence: belief in one's own abilities and judgment (self-confidence), trust placed in others, and graded certainty about one's judgments; distinguished from self-esteem and self-efficacy, with calibration and overconfidence research.
Confidence and supply
Confidence and supply is a Westminster-system arrangement where smaller parties support a minority government on confidence motions and budget (supply) votes, without joining a coalition or taking cabinet posts, in exchange for policy concessions.
Confidential (magazine)
Confidential was Robert Harrison's American celebrity scandal magazine (launched late 1952), subtitled 'Tells the Facts and Names the Names,' which peaked at 4.6 million copies in 1956 before the 1957 Kraft Committee investigation and criminal libel trial forced it to change format; distinct from the British Confidential Print series and other namesakes.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality: the legal and contractual obligation not to divulge protected information to third parties. Covers confidentiality clauses, NDAs, standard exceptions, enforceability limits, arbitration, and post-#MeToo reform such as the UK Employment Rights Act 2025.
Confirmation
Confirmation, or the Sacrament of Confirmation, is a Christian rite in which a baptized person receives the gift of the Holy Spirit, treated as a sacrament by Catholics.