Fedʹeral States
. In the late Americanʹwar the Unionists were so called—i.e. those northern states which combined to resist the eleven southern or Confederate states (q.v.).
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.