Riiiighhtttt.........and the moon landing was filmed in a Hollywood backlot............
{shaking head}more of non-sensical's northron mythology{/shaking head}
You can call yourself a sovereign nation if you want. Like that guy on the cable commercial you can take your neighborhood and announce your secession and say you've established the nation of Cowboywaylandia. You can make a flag and organize what you call a government. You can do that and declrare yourself the grand high king over all. Youc an do all that and nobody will stop you. But until people start bowing and calling you "Your Majesty" then you aren't the grand high King of Cowboywaylandia. You're just some nut with a flag and a government and some crazy ideas.
Nobody considered the confederacy a sovereign nation. Nobody recognized them as such, dealt with them as an independent nation, or considered them as anything other than a rebellious part of the U.S. They may have thought of themselves as a sovereign nation. But to the rest of the world they were just some nuts with a flag and a government and some crazy ideas. Plus a whole lot of slaves.