Please answer the following question: Information: - The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. - Camille Armand Jules Marie , Prince de Polignac ( February 16 , 1832 -- November 15 , 1913 ) was a French nobleman who served with the Confederates in the American Civil War , living on to become the last surviving Confederate major - general . After service in the French army in the Crimea , Polignac was travelling in America at the outbreak of war , when he sided with the south . He distinguished himself as a brigadier in the Red River Campaign , notably at the Battle of Mansfield , after which he was promoted divisional commander . Polignac was well - liked by his troops , who found his name hard to pronounce and called him '' Prince Polecat '' , which he apparently found amusing . Returning to France , he commanded a division in the Franco - Prussian War , before devoting himself to the study of mathematics and music . - Secession (derived from the Latin term "secessio") is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity (a country), but also any organization, union or military alliance. Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals. - The Confederate States, officially the Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865. It was originally formed by seven slave states South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'camille armand jules marie' exhibits the relationship of 'allegiance'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - confederate states of america - union
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confederate states of america