[GOPcapitalist]

Did any foreign power recognize it as a separate state?

The CSA had one foreign power give outright diplomatic recognition - the Germanic state of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. It also obtained an implicit recognition from the Vatican, which repeatedly addressed the CSA as a government in its own right.

It should be noted that for the first three or so years of the United States' existence after 1776 they had but a single foreign power that recognized their flag - the tiny island of St. Eustasius in the carribean, whose Dutch governor made a decision on his own to recieve the United States diplomatically. Thus the confederacy circa 1863 was better off in terms of diplomatic recognition from abroad than the United States circa 1777.

[fortheDeclaration]

The CSA had one foreign power give outright diplomatic recognition - the Germanic state of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. It also obtained an implicit recognition from the Vatican, which repeatedly addressed the CSA as a government in its own right.

The Germanic state of what?

The Vatican?

I would say that for the first three years, neither the U.S. nor the Confederacy were recognized nations.