The Vatican was the only country to offically recognize the Confederacy as a country. Also, Jeff Davis was Catholic.
Jeff Davis was Catholic??? Fascinating, since Catholics were targeted by the KKK far more than even blacks. But then again, the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.
I looked up that claim since it was so surprising. Not entirely accurate, but the truth is close enough to be very surprising. The Vatican was the only CATHOLIC country to recognize the confederacy. Apparently, Jeff Davis corresponded with the pope and developed a friendship while the pope was in exile during the Garibaldi crisis (!). And, while Jeff Davis wasn’t Catholic during the Civil War, he died one and had already developed a strong affiliation to Catholic pieties.