President Lincoln visited Richmond on April fourth. He visited the Confederate state house where the rebel Congress had met.

林肯总统4月4日访问里士满。他参观了同盟国议会大楼，叛军的国会在大楼中召开会议。

It was an act of war, and it applied only to Confederate states.

这是一种战争行为， 它只适用于同盟国。

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the enslaved people in the Confederate states.

1863 年， 亚伯拉罕·林肯总统发布了《解放奴隶宣言》，解放了南部邦联的奴隶。

Confederate states where slavery was legal also wanted it to be legal in future states, as the U.S. population grew and moved west.

奴隶制合法的邦联州也希望它在未来的州是合法的，因为美国人口增长并向西移动。

By the early 20th century, the UDC had 100,000 members in chapters spread all over the country, but mostly in former Confederate states.

到 20 世纪初， UDC 在全国各地的分会中拥有 100,000 名成员，但大多数在前邦联州。

And you got there in 2012. And this was your first time living in a Southern state in the U.S., a former Confederate state.

你是在 2012 年到达那里的。这是你第一次住在美国南部的一个州，一个前南部邦联的州。

The confederate states had to be reunited with the union and the rights of the newly free blacks had to be established, unfortunately reconstruction was easier said than done.

联盟国不得不与合众国再次团结起来，要为刚刚得到解放的黑奴规定权利，不幸的是，这些重建工作说来容易做起来难。

Some have already started voicing their fears that the removal of Confederate states is a slippery slope that will lead to monuments to Washington and Jefferson being taken down.

一些人已经开始表达自己的担心，移除南部邦联将军的雕像是滑向深渊的道路，将导致华盛顿纪念碑以及杰斐逊纪念碑被拆除。

Men of more conservative views held that, as the war had been waged by the North on the theory that no state could secede from the union, the Confederate states had merely attempted to withdraw and had failed.

持更保守观点的人认为，由于北方是根据任何州都不能脱离联邦的理论发动战争的， 所以同盟国只是试图退出， 但失败了。