<Dd> (if Britain is) tolerating the application of the so - called seceding States, or wavering about it, (they cannot) remain friends with the United States...if they determine to recognize (the Confederacy), (Britain) may at the same time prepare to enter into alliance with the enemies of this republic . </Dd> <P> The United States government never declared war on those "kindred and countrymen" in the Confederacy, but conducted its military efforts beginning with a presidential proclamation issued April 15, 1861 . It called for troops to recapture forts and suppress what Lincoln later called an "insurrection and rebellion". </P> <P> Mid-war parlays between the two sides occurred without formal political recognition, though the laws of war predominantly governed military relationships on both sides of uniformed conflict . </P> <P> On the part of the Confederacy, immediately following Fort Sumter the Confederate Congress proclaimed "...war exists between the Confederate States and the Government of the United States, and the States and Territories thereof ..." A state of war was not to formally exist between the Confederacy and those states and territories in the United States allowing slavery, although Confederate Rangers were compensated for destruction they could effect there throughout the war . </P>

Which states left the union during the civil war