The phrase "confederacy for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a confederation or alliance formed for a specific purpose or goal. Example: The confederacy for peace and stability in the region has been successful in reducing tensions among neighboring countries.
They add that their forebears fought for the Confederacy for reasons other than retaining slavery.
She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for 53 years and was the current New York Division President prior to her death.
Richmond later became a hub for the slave trade and was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War.
Continued pressure against Unionist civilians convinced the more pragmatic political and business leaders of the community, like the prominent attorney John Baxter, to switch sides and support the Confederacy for the time being.
In 1993 his Senate colleague Carol Moseley Braun, an African-American, bested him in a floor fight over granting an extension of a patent to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for a design that featured the original Confederate flag.
The best chapter of his book rewrites American history to boomer tastes, with dialogue to match, as in: "Speaking for the entire Lincoln family, I'd like to congratulate the Confederacy for taking things to another level".
"Even now I still have deep, deep feelings for my Southern heritage and for the Confederacy, which for a lot of us was the defining moment of the South.
"A Confederacy of Dunces," for instance.
There's the posthumous first novel -- John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces," for example -- that makes you wonder what might have been.
It may seem odd, decades after the civil-rights movement, to note that for a sitting President to say that the Confederacy fought for the institution of slavery — and that doing so was a moral wrong — is a radical statement.
Virginia, home to the capital of the Confederacy, went for Mr. Obama.
