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Confederate States Army

February 07, 2023

The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold the institution of slavery.[3] On February 28, 1861, the Provisional Confederate Congress established a provisional volunteer army and gave control over military operations and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the newly chosen Confederate president, Jefferson Davis. Davis was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, and colonel of a volunteer regiment during the Mexican–American War. He had also been a United States senator from Mississippi and U.S. Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. On March 1, 1861, on behalf of the Confederate government, Davis assumed control of the military situation at Charleston, South Carolina, where South Carolina state militia besieged Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, held by a small U.S. Army garrison. By March 1861, the Provisional Confederate Congress expanded the provisional forces and established a more permanent Confederate States Army.

Confederate States Army
Battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia
Active1861–1865
DisbandedMay 26, 1865 (1865-05-26)
CountryConfederate States
TypeArmy
Size1,082,119 total who served[1]
  • 464,646 peak in 1863
Part of C.S. War Department
Colors  Cadet Gray[2]
March"Dixie"
EngagementsAmerican Indian Wars
Cortina Troubles
American Civil War
Commanders
Commander-in-ChiefJefferson Davis (POW)
General in ChiefRobert E. Lee  

An accurate count of the total number of individuals who served in the Confederate Army is not possible due to incomplete and destroyed Confederate records; estimates of the number of individual Confederate soldiers are between 750,000 and 1,000,000 troops. This does not include an unknown number of slaves who were pressed into performing various tasks for the army, such as the construction of fortifications and defenses or driving wagons.[4] Since these figures include estimates of the total number of individual soldiers who served at any time during the war, they do not represent the size of the army at any given date. These numbers do not include sailors who served in Confederate States Navy.

Although most of the soldiers who fought in the American Civil War were volunteers, both sides by 1862 resorted to conscription, primarily as a means to force men to register and volunteer. In the absence of exact records, estimates of the percentage of Confederate soldiers who were draftees, are about double the 6 percent of Union soldiers who were conscripts.[5]

Confederate casualty figures also are incomplete and unreliable. The best estimates of Confederate military personnel deaths are about 94,000 killed or mortally wounded, 164,000 deaths from disease, and between 26,000 and 31,000 deaths in Union prison camps. One estimate of the Confederate wounded, which is considered incomplete, is 194,026.[6][citation needed]

The main Confederate armies, the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee and the remnants of the Army of Tennessee and various other units under General Joseph E. Johnston, surrendered to the U.S. on April 9, 1865 (officially April 12), and April 18, 1865 (officially April 26). Other Confederate forces surrendered between April 16, 1865, and June 28, 1865.[7] By the end of the war, more than 100,000 Confederate soldiers had deserted,[8] and some estimates put the number as high as one-third of all Confederate soldiers.[9] The Confederacy's government effectively dissolved when it fled Richmond on April 3, 1865, and exerted no control over the remaining armies.

Prelude

By the time Abraham Lincoln took office as President of the United States on March 4, 1861, the seven seceding slave states had formed the Confederate States. They seized federal property, including nearly all U.S. Army forts, within their borders.[10] Lincoln was determined to hold the forts remaining under U.S. control when he took office, especially Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. On February 28, shortly before Lincoln was sworn in as president, the Provisional Confederate Congress had authorized the organization of a large Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS).[11]

Under orders from Confederate President Jefferson Davis, C.S. troops under the command of General P. G. T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12–13, 1861 and forced its capitulation on April 14.[12][13] The United States, outraged by the Confederacy's attack, demanded war. It rallied behind Lincoln's call on April 15 for all the loyal states to send troops to recapture the forts from the secessionists, to put down the rebellion and to save the Union.[14] Four more slave states then joined the Confederacy. Both the United States and the Confederate States began in earnest to raise large, mostly volunteer, armies,[15][16] with the opposing objectives: putting down the rebellion and preserving the Union on the one hand, and establishing independence from the United States on the other.[17]

Establishment

 
Private Edwin Francis Jemison, whose image became one of the most famous portraits of the young soldiers of the war

The Confederate Congress provided for a Confederate army patterned after the United States Army. It was to consist of a large provisional force to exist only in time of war and a small permanent regular army. The provisional, volunteer army was established by an act of the Provisional Confederate Congress passed on February 28, 1861, one week before the act which established the permanent regular army organization, passed on March 6. Although the two forces were to exist concurrently, little was done to organize the Confederate regular army.[18]

  • The Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS) began organizing on April 27. Virtually all regular, volunteer, and conscripted men preferred to enter this organization since officers could achieve a higher rank in the Provisional Army than they could in the Regular Army. If the war had ended successfully for them, the Confederates intended that the PACS would be disbanded, leaving only the ACSA.[19]
  • The Army of the Confederate States of America (ACSA) was the regular army and was authorized to include 15,015 men, including 744 officers, but this level was never achieved. The men serving in the highest rank as Confederate States generals, such as Samuel Cooper and Robert E. Lee, were enrolled in the ACSA to ensure that they outranked all militia officers.[19] ACSA ultimately existed only on paper. The organization of the ACSA did not proceed beyond the appointment and confirmation of some officers. Three state regiments were later denominated "Confederate" regiments, but this appears to have had no practical effect on the organization of a regular Confederate Army and no real effect on the regiments themselves.

Members of all the military forces of the Confederate States (the army, the navy, and the marine corps) are often referred to as "Confederates", and members of the Confederate army were referred to as "Confederate soldiers". Supplementing the Confederate army were the various state militias of the Confederacy:

  • Confederate States State Militias were organized and commanded by the state governments, similar to those authorized by the United States' Militia Act of 1792. Some of these militia forces, in the early days of the Confederacy, had operated as stand alone military forces before being incorporated into the Confederate Army; one of the more well known was the Provisional Army of Virginia.

Control and conscription

Main article: Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864
 
A cartoon from the war, showing the Confederates forcibly drafting a Southern Unionist man into the Confederate army. The Unionist man objects, with the Confederates threatening to lynch him if he does not comply.

Control and operation of the Confederate army were administered by the Confederate States War Department, which was established by the Confederate Provisional Congress in an act on February 21, 1861. The Confederate Congress gave control over military operations, and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the President of the Confederate States of America on February 28, 1861, and March 6, 1861. On March 8 the Confederate Congress passed a law that authorized Davis to issue proclamations to call up no more than 100,000 men.[20] The War Department asked for 8,000 volunteers on March 9, 20,000 on April 8, and 49,000 on and after April 16. Davis proposed an army of 100,000 soldiers in his message to Congress on April 29.[21]

On August 8, 1861, the Confederacy called for 400,000 volunteers to serve for one or three years. In April 1862,[22] the Confederacy passed the first conscription law in either Confederate or Union history, the Conscription Act,[23] which made all able bodied white men between the ages of 18 and 35 liable for a three-year term of service in the Provisional Army. It also extended the terms of enlistment for all one-year soldiers to three years. Men employed in certain occupations considered to be most valuable for the home front (such as railroad and river workers, civil officials, telegraph operators, miners, druggists and teachers) were exempt from the draft.[24] The act was amended twice in 1862. On September 27, the maximum age of conscription was extended to 45.[25] On October 11, the Confederate Congress passed the so-called "Twenty Negro Law",[26] which exempted anyone who owned 20 or more slaves, a move that caused deep resentment among conscripts who did not own slaves.[27]

The Confederate Congress enacted several more amendments throughout the war to address losses suffered in battle as well as the United States' greater supply of manpower. In December 1863, it abolished the practice of allowing a rich drafted man to hire a substitute to take his place in the ranks. Substitution had also been practiced in the United States, leading to similar resentment from the lower classes. In February 1864, the age limits were extended to between 17 and 50.[28] Challenges to the subsequent acts came before five state supreme courts; all five upheld them.[29]

Morale and motivations

 
An 1861 Confederate recruiting poster from Virginia, urging men to join the Confederate cause and fight off the Union Army, which it refers to as a "brutal and desperate foe"

In his 2010 book Major Problems in the Civil War, historian Michael Perman says that historians are of two minds on why millions of men seemed so eager to fight, suffer and die over four years:

Some historians emphasize that Civil War soldiers were driven by political ideology, holding firm beliefs about the importance of liberty, Union, or state rights, or about the need to protect or to destroy slavery. Others point to less overtly political reasons to fight, such as the defense of one's home and family, or the honor and brotherhood to be preserved when fighting alongside other men. Most historians agree that, no matter what he thought about when he went into the war, the experience of combat affected him profoundly and sometimes affected his reasons for continuing to fight.

— Michael Perman, Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2010), p. 178.[30]

Educated soldiers drew upon their knowledge of American history to justify their costs. Historian James M. McPherson says:

Confederate and Union soldiers interpreted the heritage of 1776 in opposite ways. Confederates professed to fight for liberty and independence from a too radical government; Unionists said they fought to preserve the nation conceived in liberty from dismemberment and destruction ... The rhetoric of liberty that had permeated the letters of Confederate volunteers in 1861, grew even stronger as the war progressed.[31]

Before and during the Civil War, the popular press of Richmond, including its five major newspapers, sought to inspire a sense of patriotism, Confederate identity, and the moral high ground in the southern population.[32]

Religion

The southern churches met the shortage of Army chaplains by sending missionaries. The Southern Baptists sent a total of 78 missionaries, starting in 1862. Presbyterians were even more active, with 112 missionaries sent in early 1865. Other missionaries were funded and supported by the Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans. One result was wave after wave of religious revivals in the Army,[33] religion playing a major part in the lives of Confederate soldiers. Some men with a weak religious affiliation became committed Christians, and saw their military service in terms of satisfying God's wishes. Religion strengthened the soldiers' loyalty to their comrades and the Confederacy.[34][35][36][37] Military historian Samuel J. Watson argues that Christian faith was a major factor in combat motivation. According to his analysis, the soldiers' faith was consoling for the loss of comrades; it was a shield against fear; it helped reduce drinking and fighting in the ranks; it enlarged the soldiers' community of close friends and helped compensate for their long-term separation from home.[38][39]

Slavery and white supremacism

In his 1997 book For Cause and Comrades, which examines the motivations of the American Civil War's soldiers, historian James M. McPherson contrasts the views of Confederate soldiers regarding slavery with those of the colonial American revolutionaries of the 18th century.[40] He stated that while the American rebel colonists of the 1770s saw an incongruity between owning slaves on the one hand, and proclaiming to be fighting for liberty on the other, the Confederacy's soldiers did not, as the Confederate ideology of white supremacy negated any contradiction between the two:

Unlike many slaveholders in the age of Thomas Jefferson, Confederate soldiers from slaveholding families expressed no feelings of embarrassment or inconsistency in fighting for their liberty while holding other people in slavery. Indeed, white supremacy and the right of property in slaves were at the core of the ideology for which Confederate soldiers fought.

— James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), p. 106.[40]

McPherson states that Confederate soldiers did not discuss the issue of slavery as often as United States soldiers did, because most Confederate soldiers readily accepted as an obvious fact that they were fighting to perpetuate slavery and thus did not feel the need to debate over it:

[O]nly 20 percent of the sample of 429 Southern soldiers explicitly voiced proslavery convictions in their letters or diaries. As one might expect, a much higher percentage of soldiers from slaveholding families than from non-slaveholding families expressed such a purpose: 33 percent, compared with 12 percent. Ironically, the proportion of Union soldiers who wrote about the slavery question was greater, as the next chapter will show. There is a ready explanation for this apparent paradox. Emancipation was a salient issue for Union soldiers because it was controversial. Slavery was less salient for most Confederate soldiers because it was not controversial. They took slavery for granted as one of the Southern 'rights' and institutions for which they fought, and did not feel compelled to discuss it.

— James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), pp. 109–110.[41]

Continuing, McPherson also stated that of the hundreds of Confederate soldiers' letters he had examined, none of them contained any anti-slavery sentiment whatsoever:

Although only 20 percent of the soldiers avowed explicit proslavery purposes in their letters and diaries, none at all dissented from that view.

— James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), p. 110, emphasis in original.[41]

McPherson admits some flaws in his sampling of letters. Soldiers from slaveholding families were overrepresented by 100%:

Nonslaveholding farmers are underrepresented in the Confederate sample. Indeed, while about one-third of all Confederate soldiers belonged to slaveholding families, slightly more than two-thirds of the sample whose slaveholding status is known did so.

— James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), p. ix. [42]

In some cases, Confederate men were motivated to join the army in response to the United States' actions regarding its opposition to slavery.[43] After U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, some Confederate soldiers welcomed the move, as they believed it would strengthen pro-slavery sentiment in the Confederacy, and thus lead to greater enlistment of soldiers in the Confederate army.[43]

One Confederate soldier from Texas gave his reasons for fighting for the Confederacy, stating that "we are fighting for our property",[44] contrasting this with the motivations of Union soldiers, who, he claimed, were fighting for the "flimsy and abstract idea that a negro is equal to an Anglo American".[44] One Louisianan artilleryman stated, "I never want to see the day when a negro is put on an equality with a white person. There is too many free niggers ... now to suit me, let alone having four millions."[45] A North Carolinian soldier stated, "[A] white man is better than a nigger."[45]

In 1894, Virginian and former Confederate soldier John S. Mosby, reflecting on his role in the war, stated in a letter to a friend that "I've always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I've never heard of any other cause than slavery."[46][47]

Desertion

Further information: Desertion § American Civil War

At many points during the war, and especially near the end, the Confederate armies were very poorly fed. At home their families were in worsening condition and faced starvation and the depredations of roving bands of marauders. Many soldiers went home temporarily ("Absent Without Official Leave") and quietly returned when their family problems had been resolved. By September 1864, however, President Davis publicly admitted that two-thirds of the soldiers were absent, "most of them without leave". The problem escalated rapidly after that, and fewer and fewer men returned.[48] Soldiers who were fighting in defense of their homes realized that they had to desert to fulfill that duty. Historian Mark Weitz argues that the official count of 103,400 deserters is too low. He concludes that most of the desertions came because the soldier felt he owed a higher duty to his own family than to the Confederacy.[49]

Confederate policies regarding desertion generally were severe. For example, on August 19, 1862, General Stonewall Jackson approved the court-martial sentence of execution for three soldiers for desertion, rejecting pleas for clemency from the soldiers' regimental commander. Jackson's goal was to maintain discipline in a volunteer army whose homes were under threat of enemy occupation.[50][51]

Historians of the Civil War have emphasized how soldiers from poor families deserted because they were urgently needed at home. Local pressures mounted as Union forces occupied more and more Confederate territory, putting more and more families at risk of hardship.[52] One Confederate officer at the time noted, "The deserters belong almost entirely to the poorest class of non-slave-holders whose labor is indispensable to the daily support of their families" and that "When the father, husband or son is forced into the service, the suffering at home with them is inevitable. It is not in the nature of these men to remain quiet in the ranks under such circumstances."[53]

Some soldiers also deserted from ideological motivations.[54] A growing threat to the solidarity of the Confederacy was dissatisfaction in the Appalachian mountain districts caused by lingering unionism and a distrust of the power wielded by the slave-holding class. Many of their soldiers deserted, returned home, and formed a military force that fought off regular army units trying to punish them.[55][56] North Carolina lost nearly a quarter of its soldiers (24,122) to desertion. This was the highest rate of desertion of any Confederate state.[57][58]

Young Mark Twain deserted the army long before he became a famous writer and lecturer, but he often commented upon the episode comically. Author Neil Schmitz has examined the deep unease Twain felt about losing his honor, his fear of facing death as a soldier, and his rejection of a Southern identity as a professional author.[59]

Organization

 
CSA M1857 Napoleon Artillery Piece

Because of the destruction of any central repository of records in Richmond in 1865 and the comparatively poor record-keeping of the time, there can be no definitive number that represents the strength of the Confederate States Army. Estimates range from 500,000 to 2,000,000 soldiers who were involved at any time during the war. Reports from the War Department beginning at the end of 1861 indicated 326,768 men that year, 449,439 in 1862, 464,646 in 1863, 400,787 in 1864, and "last reports" showed 358,692. Estimates of enlistments throughout the war range from 1,227,890 to 1,406,180.[60]

The following calls for soldiers were issued:

  • March 6, 1861: 100,000 volunteers and militia
  • January 23, 1862: 400,000 volunteers and militia
  • April 16, 1862, the First Conscription Act: conscripted white men ages 18 to 35 for the duration of hostilities[61]
  • September 27, 1862, the Second Conscription Act: expanded the age range to 18 to 45,[62] with implementation beginning on July 15, 1863
  • February 17, 1864, the Third Conscription Act: ages 17 to 50[63]
  • March 13, 1865, authorized up to 300,000 African American troops but was never fully implemented.[64]

The CSA was initially a (strategically) defensive army, and many soldiers were resentful when Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia in an invasion of the North in the Antietam campaign.

Command

Further information: General officers in the Confederate States Army
 
General Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's most famous general

The army did not have a formal overall military commander, or general in chief, until late in the war. The Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, himself a former U.S. Army officer and U.S. Secretary of War,[65] served as commander-in-chief and provided the strategic direction for Confederate land and naval forces. The following men had varying degrees of control:

  • Robert E. Lee was "charged with the conduct of military operations in the armies of the Confederacy" from March 13 to May 31, 1862. He was referred to as Davis' military adviser but exercised broad control over the strategic and logistical aspects of the Army, a role similar in nature to the current Chief of Staff of the United States Army. On June 1, he assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was considered the most important of all the Confederate field armies.[66]
  • Braxton Bragg was similarly "charged with the conduct of military operations in the armies of the Confederacy" from February 24, 1864 (after he was relieved of field command following the Battle of Chattanooga) to January 31, 1865. This role was a military advisory position under Davis.[67]
  • Lee was formally designated general in chief by an act of Congress (January 23, 1865) and served in this capacity from January 31 to April 9, 1865.[68]

The lack of centralized control was a strategic weakness for the Confederacy, and there are only a few examples of its armies acting in concert across multiple theaters to achieve a common objective. One instance occurred in late 1862 with Lee's invasion of Maryland, coincident with two other actions: Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and Earl Van Dorn's advance against Corinth, Mississippi. All three initiatives were unsuccessful, however. Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown was an extreme case of a Southern States Rights advocate asserting control over Confederate soldiers: he defied the Confederate government's wartime policies and resisted the military draft. Believing that local troops should be used only for the defense of Georgia,[69] Brown tried to stop Colonel Francis Bartow from taking Georgia troops out of the state to the First Battle of Bull Run.[70]

Many of the Confederacy's senior military leaders (including Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, and James Longstreet) and even President Jefferson Davis, were former U.S. Army and, in smaller numbers, U.S. Navy officers who had been opposed to, disapproved of, or were at least unenthusiastic about secession, but resigned their U.S. commissions upon hearing that their states had left the Union. They felt that they had no choice but to help defend their homes. President Abraham Lincoln was exasperated to hear of such men who professed to love their country but were willing to fight against it.

Personnel organization

As in the U.S. Army, the Confederate Army's soldiers were organized by military specialty. The combat arms included infantry, cavalry, and artillery.

Although fewer soldiers might comprise a squad or platoon, the smallest infantry maneuver unit in the Army was a company of 100 soldiers. Ten companies were organized into an infantry regiment, which theoretically had 1,000 men. In reality, as disease, desertions and casualties took their toll, and the common practice of sending replacements to form new regiments took hold, most regiments were greatly reduced in strength. By the mid-war, most regiments averaged 300–400 men, with Confederate units slightly smaller on average than their U.S. counterparts. For example, at the pivotal Battle of Chancellorsville, the average U.S. Army infantry regiment's strength was 433 men, versus 409 for Confederate infantry regiments.[71]

Rough unit sizes for CSA combat units during the war:[72]

  • Corps - 24,000 to 28,000
  • Division - 6,000 to 14,000
  • Brigade - 800 to 1,700
  • Regiment - 350 to 400
  • Company – 35 to 40

Regiments, which were the basic units of army organization through which soldiers were supplied and deployed, were raised by individual states. They were generally referred by number and state, for example 1st Texas, 12th Virginia. To the extent the word "battalion" was used to describe a military unit, it referred to a multi-company task force of a regiment or a near-regimental size unit. Throughout the war, the Confederacy raised the equivalent of 1,010 regiments in all branches, including militias, versus 2,050 regiments for the U.S. Army.[73]

Four regiments usually formed a brigade, although as the number of soldiers in many regiments became greatly reduced, especially later in the war, more than four were often assigned to a brigade. Occasionally, regiments would be transferred between brigades. Two to four brigades usually formed a division. Two to four divisions usually formed a corps. Two to four corps usually formed an army. Occasionally, a single corps might operate independently as if it were a small army. The Confederate States Army consisted of several field armies, named after their primary area of operation. The largest Confederate field army was the Army of Northern Virginia, whose surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 marked the end of major combat operations in the U.S. Civil War.

Companies were commanded by captains and had two or more lieutenants. Regiments were commanded by colonels. Lieutenant colonels were second in command. At least one major was next in command. Brigades were commanded by brigadier generals although casualties or other attrition sometimes meant that brigades would be commanded by senior colonels or even a lower grade officer. Barring the same type of circumstances that might leave a lower grade officer in temporary command, divisions were commanded by major generals and corps were commanded by lieutenant generals. A few corps commanders were never confirmed as lieutenant generals and exercised corps command for varying periods as major generals. Armies of more than one corps were commanded by (full) generals.

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    Corporal of the Artillery division of the Confederate Army

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    Confederate mortar crew at Warrington, Florida in 1861, across from Fort Pickens

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    Confederate artillery at Charleston Harbor, 1863

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    Lt Col. E. V. Nash, 4th Georgia Infantry Doles-Cook Brigade, who was killed in 1864

Ranks and insignia

Further information: Ranks and insignia of the Confederate States
Officer rank structure of the Confederate Army
General Colonel Lieutenant colonel Major Captain First lieutenant Second lieutenant
             
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    General (CSA)
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    Colonel (Infantry shown)
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    Lieutenant-colonel (Headquarters shown)
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    Major (Medical Corps shown)
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    Captain (Marine Corps shown)
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    1st Lieutenant (Artillery shown)
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    2nd Lieutenant (Cavalry shown)
 
An 1895 illustration showing the uniforms of the Confederate Army contrasted with those of the U.S. Army

There were four grades of general officer (general, lieutenant general, major general, and brigadier general), but all wore the same insignia regardless of grade. This was a decision made early in the conflict. The Confederate Congress initially made the rank of brigadier general the highest rank. As the war progressed, the other general-officer ranks were quickly added, but no insignia for them was created. (Robert E. Lee was a notable exception to this. He chose to wear the rank insignia of a colonel.) Only seven men achieved the rank of (full) general;[74] the highest-ranking (earliest date of rank) was Samuel Cooper, Adjutant General and Inspector General of the Confederate States Army.

Officers' uniforms bore a braided design on the sleeves and kepi, the number of adjacent strips (and therefore the width of the lines of the design) denoting rank. The color of the piping and kepi denoted the military branch. The braid was sometimes left off by officers since it made them conspicuous targets. The kepi was rarely used, the common slouch hat being preferred for its practicality in the Southern climate.

Enlisted rank structure
Sergeant Major Quartermaster Sergeant Ordnance Sergeant First Sergeant
       
Sergeant Corporal Musician Private
    no insignia no insignia

Branch colors were used for the color of chevrons—blue for infantry, yellow for cavalry, and red for artillery. This could differ with some units, however, depending on available resources or the unit commander's desire. Cavalry regiments from Texas, for example, often used red insignia and at least one Texas infantry regiment used black.

The CSA differed from many contemporaneous armies in that all officers under the rank of brigadier general were elected by the soldiers under their command. The Confederate Congress authorized the awarding of medals for courage and good conduct on October 13, 1862, but wartime difficulties prevented the procurement of the needed medals. To avoid postponing recognition for their valor, those nominated for the awards had their names placed on a Roll of Honor, which would be read at the first dress parade after its receipt and be published in at least one newspaper in each state.

Armies and prominent leaders

The C.S. Army was composed of independent armies and military departments that were constituted, renamed, and disbanded as needs arose, particularly in reaction to offensives launched by the United States. These major units were generally named after states or geographic regions (in comparison to the U.S. Army's custom of naming armies after rivers). Armies were usually commanded by full generals (there were seven in the C.S. Army) or lieutenant generals. Some of the more important armies and their commanders were:

 
A painting of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fighting the U.S. Army at Spotsylvania in 1864

Some other prominent Confederate generals who led significant units operating sometimes independently in the CSA included Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, J. E. B. Stuart, Gideon Pillow, A. P. Hill, John B. Gordon.

Supply and logistics

 
A group of Confederate soldiers-possibly an artillery unit captured at Island No. 10 and taken at POW Camp Douglas (Chicago); photograph possibly by D. F. Brandon[75]
Main article: Confederate States of America § Transportation systems

The supply situation for most Confederate armies was dismal, even when they were victorious on the battlefield. The central government was short of money so each state government had to supply its regiments. The lack of central authority and the ineffective railroads, combined with the frequent unwillingness or inability of Southern state governments to provide adequate funding, were key factors in the Confederate army's demise. The Confederacy early on lost control of most of its major river and ocean ports to capture or blockade. The road system was poor, and it relied more and more on a heavily overburdened railroad system. U.S. forces destroyed track, engines, cars, bridges and telegraph lines as often as possible, knowing that new equipment was unavailable to the Confederacy.[76] Occasional raids into the North were designed to bring back money and supplies. In 1864, the Confederates burned down Chambersburg, a Pennsylvania city they had raided twice in the years before, due to its failure to pay an extortion demand.[77]

As a result of severe supply problems, as well as the lack of textile factories in the Confederacy and the successful U.S. naval blockade of Southern ports, the typical Confederate soldier was rarely able to wear the standard regulation uniform, particularly as the war progressed. While on the march or in parade formation, Confederate armies often displayed a wide array of dress, ranging from faded, patched-together regulation uniforms; rough, homespun uniforms colored with homemade dyes such as butternut (a yellow-brown color), and even soldiers in a hodgepodge of civilian clothing. After a successful battle, it was not unusual for victorious Confederate troops to procure U.S. Army uniform parts from captured supplies and dead U.S. soldiers; this would occasionally cause confusion in later battles and skirmishes.[78]

Individual states were expected to supply their soldiers, which led to a lack of uniformity. Some states (such as North Carolina) were able to better supply their soldiers, while other states (such as Texas) were unable for various reasons to adequately supply their troops as the war continued.

Furthermore, each state often had its uniform regulations and insignia, which meant that the "standard" Confederate uniform often featured a variety of differences based on the state the soldier came from. For example, uniforms for North Carolina regiments often featured a colored strip of cloth on their shoulders to designate what part of the service the soldier was in. Confederate soldiers also frequently suffered from inadequate supplies of shoes, tents, and other gear, and would be forced to innovate and make do with whatever they could scrounge from the local countryside. While Confederate officers were generally better-supplied and were normally able to wear a regulation officer's uniform, they often chose to share other hardships – such as the lack of adequate food – with their troops.

 
Confederate troops marching south on N Market Street, Frederick, Maryland, during the Civil War

Confederate soldiers were also faced with inadequate food rations, especially as the war progressed. There was plenty of meat in the Confederacy. The unsolvable problem was shipping it to the armies, especially when Lee's army in Virginia was at the end of a long, tenuous supply line. The United States victory at Vicksburg in 1863 shut off supplies from Texas and the west.[79]

By 1863, Confederate generals such as Robert E. Lee often spent as much time and effort searching for food for their men, as they did in planning strategy and tactics. Individual commanders often had to "beg, borrow or steal" food and ammunition from whatever sources were available, including captured U.S. depots and encampments, and private citizens regardless of their loyalties. Lee's campaign against Gettysburg and southern Pennsylvania (a rich agricultural region) was driven in part by his desperate need of supplies, especially food.[80]

General Sherman's total warfare reduced the ability of the South to produce food and ship it to the armies or its cities. Coupled with the U.S. blockade of all ports the devastation of plantations, farms and railroads meant the Confederacy increasingly lost the capacity to feed its soldiers and civilians.

Native Americans and the Confederate Army

Main article: Native Americans in the American Civil War

Native Americans served in both the United States and Confederate military during the American Civil War.[81][82] They fought knowing they might jeopardize their freedom, unique cultures, and ancestral lands if they ended up on the losing side of the Civil War.[81][83] During the Civil War, 28,693 Native Americans served in the U.S. and Confederate armies, participating in battles such as Pea Ridge, Second Manassas, Antietam, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and in Federal assaults on Petersburg.[81][82] Many Native American tribes, such as the Creek, the Cherokee, and the Choctaw, were slaveholders themselves, and thus, found a political and economic commonality with the Confederacy.[84]

At the beginning of the war, Albert Pike was appointed as Confederate envoy to Native Americans. In this capacity he negotiated several treaties, one such treaty was the Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws conducted in July 1861. The treaty covered sixty-four terms covering many subjects like Choctaw and Chickasaw nation sovereignty, Confederate States of America citizenship possibilities, and an entitled delegate in the House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America. The Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Catawba, and Creek tribes were the only tribes to fight on the Confederate side. The Confederacy wanted to recruit Indians east of the Mississippi River in 1862, so they opened up a recruiting camp in Mobile, Alabama "at the foot of Stone Street".[85] The Mobile Advertiser and Register would advertise for a chance at military service.

A Chance for Active Service. The Secretary of War has authorized me to enlist all the Indians east of the Mississippi River into the service of the Confederate States, as Scouts. In addition to the Indians, I will receive all white male citizens, who are good marksmen. To each member, Fifty Dollars Bounty, clothes, arms, camp equipage &c: furnished. The weapons shall be Enfield Rifles. For further information address me at Mobile, Ala. (Signed) S. G. Spann, Comm'ing Choctaw Forces.

— Jacqueline Anderson Matte, They Say the Wind Is Red[85]

Cherokee

Main article: Cherokee in the American Civil War
 
A Cherokee Confederates reunion in New Orleans, 1903

Stand Watie, along with a few Cherokee, sided with the Confederate army, in which he was made colonel and commanded a battalion of Cherokee.[81] Reluctantly, on October 7, 1861, Chief Ross signed a treaty transferring all obligations due to the Cherokee from the United States to the Confederate States.[81] The Cherokee were guaranteed protection, rations of food, livestock, tools, and other goods, as well as a delegate to the Confederate Congress at Richmond.[81]

In exchange, the Cherokee would furnish ten companies of mounted men, and allow the construction of military posts and roads within the Cherokee Nation. However, no Indian regiment was to be called on to fight outside Indian Territory.[81] As a result of the Treaty, the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles, led by Col. John Drew, was formed. Following the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 7–8, 1862, Drew's Mounted Rifles defected to the United States forces in Kansas, where they joined the Indian Home Guard. In the summer of 1862, U.S. troops captured Chief Ross, who was paroled and spent the remainder of the war in Washington and Philadelphia proclaiming Cherokee loyalty to the United States Army.[81]

William Holland Thomas, the adopted white son of the chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, recruited hundreds of Cherokees for the Confederate army, particularly for Thomas' Legion. The Legion, raised in September 1862, fought until the end of the War.

Choctaw

 
Jackson McCurtain, Lieutenant Colonel of the First Choctaw Battalion in Oklahoma, CSA

Choctaw Confederate battalions were formed in Indian Territory and later in Mississippi in support of the southern cause. The Choctaws, who were expecting support from the Confederates, got little. Webb Garrison, a Civil War historian, describes their response: when Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike authorized the raising of regiments during the fall of 1860, Seminoles, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Cherokees responded with considerable enthusiasm. Their zeal for the Confederate cause, however, began to evaporate when they found that neither arms nor pay had been arranged for them. A disgusted officer later acknowledged that "with the exception of a partial supply for the Choctaw regiment, no tents, clothing, or camp, and garrison equipage was furnished to any of them."[86]

African Americans and the Confederate Army

 
1862 illustration showing Confederates escorting kidnapped African American civilians south into slavery. A similar instance occurred in Pennsylvania when the Army of Northern Virginia invaded it in 1863 to fight the U.S. at Gettysburg.[87][88][89][90]
 
An 1862 illustration of a Confederate officer forcing slaves at gunpoint to fire a cannon at U.S. soldiers in battle. A similar instance occurred at the First Battle of Bull Run, where slaves were forced by the Confederates to load and fire a cannon at U.S. forces.[91][92]
 
An 1864 cartoon lampooning the Confederacy's deliberating on the use of black soldiers, showing them defecting en masse towards U.S. lines if such proposals were adopted.
 
"Marlboro", an African American body servant to a white Confederate soldier
Main article: Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War § Confederacy

With so many white males conscripted into the army and roughly 40% of its population unfree, the work required to maintain a functioning society in the Confederacy ended up largely on the backs of slaves.[93] Even Georgian governor Joseph E. Brown noted that "the country and the army are mainly dependent upon slave labor for support."[94] African American slave labor was used in a wide variety of logistical support roles for the Confederacy, from infrastructure and mining, to teamster and medical roles such as hospital attendants and nurses.[95][96]

Using slaves as soldiers

The Confederacy did not allow African Americans to join the army, neither free people nor slaves. The idea of arming the Confederacy's slaves for use as soldiers was speculated on from the onset of the war, but such proposals were not seriously considered by Jefferson Davis or others in the Confederate administration until late in the war when severe manpower shortages were faced.[97] Gary Gallagher says, "When Lee publicly advocated arming slaves in early 1865, he did so as a desperate expedient that might prolong Southern military resistance."[98] After acrimonious debate the Confederate Congress agreed in March 1865. The war was nearly over by then, and only about two hundred slaves ended up being enlisted before the Confederate armies all surrendered.[22]

Opposition from Confederates

As early as November 1864, some Confederates knew that the chance of securing victory against the U.S. was slim.[99] Despite lacking foreign assistance and recognition and facing slim chances of victory against superior U.S. assets, Confederate newspapers such as the Georgian Atlanta Southern Confederacy continued to maintain their position and oppose the idea of armed black men in the Confederate Army, even as late in the war as January 1865.[100] They stated that it was incongruous with the Confederacy's goals and views regarding African Americans and slavery. The Georgian newspaper opined that using black men as soldiers would be an embarrassment to Confederates and their children, saying that although African Americans should be used for slave labor, they should not be used as armed soldiers, opining that:

Such an act on our part would be a stigma on the imperishable pages of history, of which all future generations of Southrons would be ashamed. These are some of the additional considerations which have suggested themselves to us. Let us put the negro to work, but not to fight.

— Atlanta Southern Confederacy (January 20, 1865), Macon, Georgia.[100]

Prominent Confederates such as R. M. T. Hunter and Georgian Democrat Howell Cobb opposed arming slaves, saying that it was "suicidal" and would run contrary to the Confederacy's ideology. Opposing such a move, Cobb stated that African Americans were untrustworthy and innately lacked the qualities to make good soldiers, and that using them would cause many Confederates to quit the army. Cobb said using blacks as soldiers would be the end of the revolution, because "if slaves make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong."[101][102][103]

The overwhelming support most Confederates had for maintaining black slavery was the primary cause of their strong opposition to using African Americans as armed soldiers. Former Confederate secretary of state Robert Toombs said "In my opinion, the worst calamity that could befall us would be to gain our independence by the valor of our slaves... instead of our own... " and complained using black troops would be "a surrender of the entire slavery question."[104] Maintaining the institution of slavery was the primary goal of the Confederacy's existence, and thus, using their slaves as soldiers was incongruous with that goal. According to historian Paul D. Escott:

[F]or a great many of the most powerful southerners the idea of arming and freeing the slaves was repugnant because the protection of slavery had been and still remained the central core of Confederate purpose ... Slavery was the basis of the planter class's wealth, power, and position in society. The South's leading men of the planter class, had built their world upon slavery and the idea of voluntarily destroying that world, even in the ultimate crisis, was almost unthinkable to them. Such feelings moved Senator R. M. T. Hunter to deliver a long speech against the bill to arm the slaves.[105]

Though most Confederates were opposed to the idea of using black soldiers, a small number suggested the idea. An acrimonious and controversial debate was raised by a letter from Patrick Cleburne[106] urging the Confederacy to raise black soldiers by offering emancipation; Jefferson Davis refused to consider the proposal and issued instructions forbidding the matter from being discussed.[107] It would not be until Robert E. Lee wrote the Confederate Congress urging them that the idea would take serious traction.[108]

On March 13, 1865,[22] the Confederate Congress passed General Order 14[109][110] by a single vote in the Confederate senate,[22][111] and Jefferson Davis signed the order into law. The order was issued March 23, but as it was late in the war, only a few African American companies were raised in the Richmond area before the town was captured by the U.S. Army and placed back under U.S. control.[112] According to historian James M. McPherson in 1994, "no black soldiers fought in the Confederate army, unless they were passing as white.[113] He noted that some Confederates brought along "their body servants, who in many cases had grown up with them" and that "on occasion some of those body servants were known to have picked up a rifle and fought. But there was no official recruitment of black soldiers in the Confederate army until the very end of the war..." He continued, "But Appomattox came only a few weeks later, and none of these men were ever put in uniform to fight."[22]

Treatment of black civilians

In some cases, the Confederates forced their African American slaves to fire upon U.S. soldiers at gunpoint,[91][92] such as at the First Battle of Bull Run. According to John Parker, a slave who was forced by the Confederates to fight Union soldiers, "Our masters tried all they could to make us fight ... They promised to give us our freedom and money besides, but none of us believed them; we only fought because we had to." Parker stated that had he been given an opportunity, he would have turned against his Confederate captors, and "could do it with pleasure".[91][92] According to abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet in 1862, he had met a slave who "had unwillingly fought on the side of Rebellion", but the slave had since defected to "the side of Union and universal liberty".[92]

During the siege of Yorktown, The United States Army's elite sniper unit, the 1st United States Sharpshooters, was devastatingly effective at shooting Confederate artillerymen defending the city. In response, some Confederate artillery crews started forcing slaves to load the cannons. "They forced their negroes to load their cannon," reported a U.S. officer. "They shot them if they would not load the cannon, and we shot them if they did."[114]

In other cases, under explicit orders from their commanders, Confederate armies would often forcibly kidnap free African American civilians during their incursions into Union territory, sending them south into Confederate territory and thus enslaving them, as was the case with the Army of Northern Virginia when it invaded Pennsylvania in 1863.[115][116]

Treatment of black prisoners of war

The usage of black men as soldiers by the Union, combined with Abraham Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, profoundly angered the Confederacy,[117] with the Confederates calling it uncivilized.[118] As a response, in May 1863, the Confederacy passed a law demanding "full and ample retaliation" against the United States, stating that any black person captured in "arms against the Confederate States" or giving aid and comfort to their enemies would be turned over to state authorities, where they could be tried as slave insurrectionists; a capital offense punishable with a sentence of death.[119][120] However, Confederate authorities feared retaliation, and consequently no black prisoner was ever put on trial and executed.[121]

James McPherson states that "Confederate troops sometimes murdered black soldiers and their officers as they tried to surrender. In most cases, though, Confederate officers returned captured black soldiers to slavery or put them to hard labor on southern fortifications."[122][123] African American soldiers who served in the United States Colored Troops were often singled out by the Confederates and suffered extra violence when captured by them.[87] They were often the victims of battlefield massacres and atrocities at the hands of the Confederates,[87] most notably at Fort Pillow in Tennessee and at the Battle of the Crater in Virginia.[124][125]

Prisoner exchanges with the United States

The Confederate law declaring black U.S. soldiers to be insurrectionist slaves, combined with the Confederacy's discriminatory mistreatment of captured black U.S. soldiers, became a stumbling block for prisoner exchanges between the United States and the Confederacy, as the U.S. government in the Lieber Code officially objected to the Confederacy's discriminatory mistreatment of prisoners of war on basis of color.[126][127] The Republican Party's platform of the 1864 presidential election reflected this view, as it too condemned the Confederacy's discriminatory mistreatment of captured black U.S. soldiers.[128] According to the authors of Liberty, Equality, Power, "Expressing outrage at this treatment, in 1863 the Lincoln administration suspended the exchange of prisoners until the Confederacy agree to treat white and black prisoners alike. The Confederacy refused."[126]

Statistics and size

Incomplete and destroyed records make an accurate count of the number of soldiers who served in the Confederate army impossible. Historians provide estimates of the actual number of individual Confederate soldiers between 750,000 and 1,000,000 troops.[129]

The exact number is unknown. Since these figures include estimates of the total number of individual soldiers who served in each army at any time during the war, they do not represent the size of the armies at any given date. Confederate casualty figures are as incomplete and unreliable as the figures on the number of Confederate soldiers. The best estimates of the number of deaths of Confederate soldiers appear to be about 94,000 killed or mortally wounded in battle, 164,000 deaths from disease and between 26,000 and 31,000 deaths in Union prison camps. In contrast, about 25,000 Union soldiers died as a result of accidents, drowning, murder, killed after capture, suicide, execution for various crimes, execution by the Confederates (64), sunstroke, other and not stated. Confederate casualties for all these reasons are unavailable. Since some Confederate soldiers would have died for these reasons, more total deaths and total casualties for the Confederacy must have occurred. One estimate of the Confederate wounded, which is considered incomplete, is 194,026; another is 226,000. At the end of the war 174,223 men of the Confederate forces surrendered to the Union Army.[130][131]

Compared to the Union Army at the time, the Confederate Army was not very ethnically diverse. Ninety-one percent of Confederate soldiers were native-born white men and only nine percent were foreign-born white men, Irishmen being the largest group with others including Germans, French, Mexicans, and British. A small number of Asian men were forcibly inducted into the Confederate Army against their will, when they arrived in Louisiana from overseas.[132]

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Further reading

  • Adams, George Worthington (1940). "Confederate Medicine". Journal of Southern History. 6#2 (2): 151–166. doi:10.2307/2191203. JSTOR 2191203.
  • Allardice, Bruce (1997). "West Points of the Confederacy: Southern Military Schools and the Confederate Army". Civil War History. 43#4.
  • Bledsoe, Andrew S. Citizen-Officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8071-6070-1.
  • Crawford, Martin (1991). "Confederate Volunteering and Enlistment in Ashe County, North Carolina, 1861–1862". Civil War History. 37 (1): 29–50. doi:10.1353/cwh.1991.0031.
  • Crute, Joseph H. Jr. (1987). Units of the Confederate States Army (2nd ed.). Gaithersburg: Olde Soldier Books. ISBN 0-942211-53-7.
  • Daniel, Larry J. (2003). Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army.
  • Eicher, David J. (2001). Civil War High Commands. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.
  • Faust, Drew Gilpin (1987). Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army. In The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 63–90.
  • Freemon, Frank R. (1987). "Administration of the Medical Department of the Confederate States Army, 1861 to 1865". Southern Medical Journal. 80 (5): 630–637. doi:10.1097/00007611-198705000-00019. PMID 3554537.
  • Haughton, Andrew (2000). Training, Tactics and Leadership in the Confederate Army of Tennessee: Seeds of Failure.
  • Jones, Adam Matthew. "'The land of my birth and the home of my heart': Enlistment Motivations for Confederate Soldiers in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1861–1862.'" (MA thesis Virginia Tech, 2014). online bibliography, pp 123–30.
  • Levine, Bruce (2005). Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War.
  • Logue, Larry M. (1993). "Who Joined the Confederate Army? Soldiers, Civilians, and Communities in Mississippi". Journal of Social History. 26#3 (3): 611–623. doi:10.1353/jsh/26.3.611. JSTOR 3788629.
  • Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. "Justice Has Something to Do with It: Class Relations and the Confederate Army." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 113 (2005):340–377.
  • Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (2007). online
  • Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders (LSU Press, 1959).
  • Watson, Samuel J (1994). "Religion and combat motivation in the Confederate armies". Journal of Military History. 58 (1): 29–55. doi:10.2307/2944178. JSTOR 2944178.
  • Weinert, Richard P. Jr. (1991). The Confederate Regular Army. White Mane Publishing. ISBN 978-0-942597-27-1.
  • Weitz, Mark A. (2005). More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. U of Nebraska Press.
  • Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (1943).
  • Wright, Marcus J. (1983). General Officers of the Confederate Army. J. M. Carroll & Co. ISBN 978-0-8488-0009-3.

Historiography

  • Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. "The Blue and Gray in Black and White: Assessing the Scholarship on Civil War Soldiers," in 'Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., 'The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (University Press of Kentucky, 2007) pp 9–30.

Primary sources

  • Confederate States. War Dept. Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States. Richmond: J.W. Randolph. 1863.
  • Robson, John S. (2007). How A One-Legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War; The Story of the Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84685-665-5.
  • U.S. War Department (1880–1901), The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office

External links

 
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  • 200 cartes-de-visite depicting officers in the Confederate army and navy, officials in the Confederate government, famous Confederate wives, and other notable figures of the Confederacy. Also included are 64 photographs attributed to Mathew Brady.
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  • Confederate Enlistment Oaths and Discharges of the Army of the State of Georgia
  • Atkinson, Charles Francis (1911). "American Civil War" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). pp. 818–828.
  • Schwab, John Christopher (1911). "Confederate States of America" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). pp. 899–901.

February 07, 2023
confederate, states, army, also, called, confederate, army, southern, army, military, land, force, confederate, states, america, commonly, referred, confederacy, during, american, civil, 1861, 1865, fighting, against, united, states, forces, independence, sout. The Confederate States Army also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army was the military land force of the Confederate States of America commonly referred to as the Confederacy during the American Civil War 1861 1865 fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold the institution of slavery 3 On February 28 1861 the Provisional Confederate Congress established a provisional volunteer army and gave control over military operations and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the newly chosen Confederate president Jefferson Davis Davis was a graduate of the U S Military Academy and colonel of a volunteer regiment during the Mexican American War He had also been a United States senator from Mississippi and U S Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce On March 1 1861 on behalf of the Confederate government Davis assumed control of the military situation at Charleston South Carolina where South Carolina state militia besieged Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor held by a small U S Army garrison By March 1861 the Provisional Confederate Congress expanded the provisional forces and established a more permanent Confederate States Army Confederate States ArmyBattle flag of the Army of Northern VirginiaActive1861 1865DisbandedMay 26 1865 1865 05 26 CountryConfederate StatesTypeArmySize1 082 119 total who served 1 464 646 peak in 1863Part ofC S War DepartmentColors Cadet Gray 2 March Dixie EngagementsAmerican Indian WarsCortina TroublesAmerican Civil WarCommandersCommander in ChiefJefferson Davis POW General in ChiefRobert E Lee An accurate count of the total number of individuals who served in the Confederate Army is not possible due to incomplete and destroyed Confederate records estimates of the number of individual Confederate soldiers are between 750 000 and 1 000 000 troops This does not include an unknown number of slaves who were pressed into performing various tasks for the army such as the construction of fortifications and defenses or driving wagons 4 Since these figures include estimates of the total number of individual soldiers who served at any time during the war they do not represent the size of the army at any given date These numbers do not include sailors who served in Confederate States Navy Although most of the soldiers who fought in the American Civil War were volunteers both sides by 1862 resorted to conscription primarily as a means to force men to register and volunteer In the absence of exact records estimates of the percentage of Confederate soldiers who were draftees are about double the 6 percent of Union soldiers who were conscripts 5 Confederate casualty figures also are incomplete and unreliable The best estimates of Confederate military personnel deaths are about 94 000 killed or mortally wounded 164 000 deaths from disease and between 26 000 and 31 000 deaths in Union prison camps One estimate of the Confederate wounded which is considered incomplete is 194 026 6 citation needed The main Confederate armies the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E Lee and the remnants of the Army of Tennessee and various other units under General Joseph E Johnston surrendered to the U S on April 9 1865 officially April 12 and April 18 1865 officially April 26 Other Confederate forces surrendered between April 16 1865 and June 28 1865 7 By the end of the war more than 100 000 Confederate soldiers had deserted 8 and some estimates put the number as high as one third of all Confederate soldiers 9 The Confederacy s government effectively dissolved when it fled Richmond on April 3 1865 and exerted no control over the remaining armies Contents 1 Prelude 2 Establishment 2 1 Control and conscription 3 Morale and motivations 3 1 Religion 3 2 Slavery and white supremacism 3 3 Desertion 4 Organization 4 1 Command 4 2 Personnel organization 4 3 Ranks and insignia 4 4 Armies and prominent leaders 5 Supply and logistics 6 Native Americans and the Confederate Army 6 1 Cherokee 6 2 Choctaw 7 African Americans and the Confederate Army 7 1 Using slaves as soldiers 7 1 1 Opposition from Confederates 7 2 Treatment of black civilians 7 3 Treatment of black prisoners of war 7 3 1 Prisoner exchanges with the United States 8 Statistics and size 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 11 1 Historiography 11 2 Primary sources 12 External linksPrelude EditBy the time Abraham Lincoln took office as President of the United States on March 4 1861 the seven seceding slave states had formed the Confederate States They seized federal property including nearly all U S Army forts within their borders 10 Lincoln was determined to hold the forts remaining under U S control when he took office especially Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston South Carolina On February 28 shortly before Lincoln was sworn in as president the Provisional Confederate Congress had authorized the organization of a large Provisional Army of the Confederate States PACS 11 Under orders from Confederate President Jefferson Davis C S troops under the command of General P G T Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12 13 1861 and forced its capitulation on April 14 12 13 The United States outraged by the Confederacy s attack demanded war It rallied behind Lincoln s call on April 15 for all the loyal states to send troops to recapture the forts from the secessionists to put down the rebellion and to save the Union 14 Four more slave states then joined the Confederacy Both the United States and the Confederate States began in earnest to raise large mostly volunteer armies 15 16 with the opposing objectives putting down the rebellion and preserving the Union on the one hand and establishing independence from the United States on the other 17 Establishment Edit Private Edwin Francis Jemison whose image became one of the most famous portraits of the young soldiers of the war The Confederate Congress provided for a Confederate army patterned after the United States Army It was to consist of a large provisional force to exist only in time of war and a small permanent regular army The provisional volunteer army was established by an act of the Provisional Confederate Congress passed on February 28 1861 one week before the act which established the permanent regular army organization passed on March 6 Although the two forces were to exist concurrently little was done to organize the Confederate regular army 18 The Provisional Army of the Confederate States PACS began organizing on April 27 Virtually all regular volunteer and conscripted men preferred to enter this organization since officers could achieve a higher rank in the Provisional Army than they could in the Regular Army If the war had ended successfully for them the Confederates intended that the PACS would be disbanded leaving only the ACSA 19 The Army of the Confederate States of America ACSA was the regular army and was authorized to include 15 015 men including 744 officers but this level was never achieved The men serving in the highest rank as Confederate States generals such as Samuel Cooper and Robert E Lee were enrolled in the ACSA to ensure that they outranked all militia officers 19 ACSA ultimately existed only on paper The organization of the ACSA did not proceed beyond the appointment and confirmation of some officers Three state regiments were later denominated Confederate regiments but this appears to have had no practical effect on the organization of a regular Confederate Army and no real effect on the regiments themselves Members of all the military forces of the Confederate States the army the navy and the marine corps are often referred to as Confederates and members of the Confederate army were referred to as Confederate soldiers Supplementing the Confederate army were the various state militias of the Confederacy Confederate States State Militias were organized and commanded by the state governments similar to those authorized by the United States Militia Act of 1792 Some of these militia forces in the early days of the Confederacy had operated as stand alone military forces before being incorporated into the Confederate Army one of the more well known was the Provisional Army of Virginia Control and conscription Edit Main article Confederate Conscription Acts 1862 1864 A cartoon from the war showing the Confederates forcibly drafting a Southern Unionist man into the Confederate army The Unionist man objects with the Confederates threatening to lynch him if he does not comply Control and operation of the Confederate army were administered by the Confederate States War Department which was established by the Confederate Provisional Congress in an act on February 21 1861 The Confederate Congress gave control over military operations and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the President of the Confederate States of America on February 28 1861 and March 6 1861 On March 8 the Confederate Congress passed a law that authorized Davis to issue proclamations to call up no more than 100 000 men 20 The War Department asked for 8 000 volunteers on March 9 20 000 on April 8 and 49 000 on and after April 16 Davis proposed an army of 100 000 soldiers in his message to Congress on April 29 21 On August 8 1861 the Confederacy called for 400 000 volunteers to serve for one or three years In April 1862 22 the Confederacy passed the first conscription law in either Confederate or Union history the Conscription Act 23 which made all able bodied white men between the ages of 18 and 35 liable for a three year term of service in the Provisional Army It also extended the terms of enlistment for all one year soldiers to three years Men employed in certain occupations considered to be most valuable for the home front such as railroad and river workers civil officials telegraph operators miners druggists and teachers were exempt from the draft 24 The act was amended twice in 1862 On September 27 the maximum age of conscription was extended to 45 25 On October 11 the Confederate Congress passed the so called Twenty Negro Law 26 which exempted anyone who owned 20 or more slaves a move that caused deep resentment among conscripts who did not own slaves 27 The Confederate Congress enacted several more amendments throughout the war to address losses suffered in battle as well as the United States greater supply of manpower In December 1863 it abolished the practice of allowing a rich drafted man to hire a substitute to take his place in the ranks Substitution had also been practiced in the United States leading to similar resentment from the lower classes In February 1864 the age limits were extended to between 17 and 50 28 Challenges to the subsequent acts came before five state supreme courts all five upheld them 29 Morale and motivations Edit An 1861 Confederate recruiting poster from Virginia urging men to join the Confederate cause and fight off the Union Army which it refers to as a brutal and desperate foe In his 2010 book Major Problems in the Civil War historian Michael Perman says that historians are of two minds on why millions of men seemed so eager to fight suffer and die over four years Some historians emphasize that Civil War soldiers were driven by political ideology holding firm beliefs about the importance of liberty Union or state rights or about the need to protect or to destroy slavery Others point to less overtly political reasons to fight such as the defense of one s home and family or the honor and brotherhood to be preserved when fighting alongside other men Most historians agree that no matter what he thought about when he went into the war the experience of combat affected him profoundly and sometimes affected his reasons for continuing to fight Michael Perman Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction 2010 p 178 30 Educated soldiers drew upon their knowledge of American history to justify their costs Historian James M McPherson says Confederate and Union soldiers interpreted the heritage of 1776 in opposite ways Confederates professed to fight for liberty and independence from a too radical government Unionists said they fought to preserve the nation conceived in liberty from dismemberment and destruction The rhetoric of liberty that had permeated the letters of Confederate volunteers in 1861 grew even stronger as the war progressed 31 Before and during the Civil War the popular press of Richmond including its five major newspapers sought to inspire a sense of patriotism Confederate identity and the moral high ground in the southern population 32 Religion Edit The southern churches met the shortage of Army chaplains by sending missionaries The Southern Baptists sent a total of 78 missionaries starting in 1862 Presbyterians were even more active with 112 missionaries sent in early 1865 Other missionaries were funded and supported by the Episcopalians Methodists and Lutherans One result was wave after wave of religious revivals in the Army 33 religion playing a major part in the lives of Confederate soldiers Some men with a weak religious affiliation became committed Christians and saw their military service in terms of satisfying God s wishes Religion strengthened the soldiers loyalty to their comrades and the Confederacy 34 35 36 37 Military historian Samuel J Watson argues that Christian faith was a major factor in combat motivation According to his analysis the soldiers faith was consoling for the loss of comrades it was a shield against fear it helped reduce drinking and fighting in the ranks it enlarged the soldiers community of close friends and helped compensate for their long term separation from home 38 39 Slavery and white supremacism Edit In his 1997 book For Cause and Comrades which examines the motivations of the American Civil War s soldiers historian James M McPherson contrasts the views of Confederate soldiers regarding slavery with those of the colonial American revolutionaries of the 18th century 40 He stated that while the American rebel colonists of the 1770s saw an incongruity between owning slaves on the one hand and proclaiming to be fighting for liberty on the other the Confederacy s soldiers did not as the Confederate ideology of white supremacy negated any contradiction between the two Unlike many slaveholders in the age of Thomas Jefferson Confederate soldiers from slaveholding families expressed no feelings of embarrassment or inconsistency in fighting for their liberty while holding other people in slavery Indeed white supremacy and the right of property in slaves were at the core of the ideology for which Confederate soldiers fought James M McPherson For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War 1997 p 106 40 McPherson states that Confederate soldiers did not discuss the issue of slavery as often as United States soldiers did because most Confederate soldiers readily accepted as an obvious fact that they were fighting to perpetuate slavery and thus did not feel the need to debate over it O nly 20 percent of the sample of 429 Southern soldiers explicitly voiced proslavery convictions in their letters or diaries As one might expect a much higher percentage of soldiers from slaveholding families than from non slaveholding families expressed such a purpose 33 percent compared with 12 percent Ironically the proportion of Union soldiers who wrote about the slavery question was greater as the next chapter will show There is a ready explanation for this apparent paradox Emancipation was a salient issue for Union soldiers because it was controversial Slavery was less salient for most Confederate soldiers because it was not controversial They took slavery for granted as one of the Southern rights and institutions for which they fought and did not feel compelled to discuss it James M McPherson For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War 1997 pp 109 110 41 Continuing McPherson also stated that of the hundreds of Confederate soldiers letters he had examined none of them contained any anti slavery sentiment whatsoever Although only 20 percent of the soldiers avowed explicit proslavery purposes in their letters and diaries none at all dissented from that view James M McPherson For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War 1997 p 110 emphasis in original 41 McPherson admits some flaws in his sampling of letters Soldiers from slaveholding families were overrepresented by 100 Nonslaveholding farmers are underrepresented in the Confederate sample Indeed while about one third of all Confederate soldiers belonged to slaveholding families slightly more than two thirds of the sample whose slaveholding status is known did so James M McPherson For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War 1997 p ix 42 In some cases Confederate men were motivated to join the army in response to the United States actions regarding its opposition to slavery 43 After U S President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation some Confederate soldiers welcomed the move as they believed it would strengthen pro slavery sentiment in the Confederacy and thus lead to greater enlistment of soldiers in the Confederate army 43 One Confederate soldier from Texas gave his reasons for fighting for the Confederacy stating that we are fighting for our property 44 contrasting this with the motivations of Union soldiers who he claimed were fighting for the flimsy and abstract idea that a negro is equal to an Anglo American 44 One Louisianan artilleryman stated I never want to see the day when a negro is put on an equality with a white person There is too many free niggers now to suit me let alone having four millions 45 A North Carolinian soldier stated A white man is better than a nigger 45 In 1894 Virginian and former Confederate soldier John S Mosby reflecting on his role in the war stated in a letter to a friend that I ve always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about I ve never heard of any other cause than slavery 46 47 Desertion Edit Further information Desertion American Civil War At many points during the war and especially near the end the Confederate armies were very poorly fed At home their families were in worsening condition and faced starvation and the depredations of roving bands of marauders Many soldiers went home temporarily Absent Without Official Leave and quietly returned when their family problems had been resolved By September 1864 however President Davis publicly admitted that two thirds of the soldiers were absent most of them without leave The problem escalated rapidly after that and fewer and fewer men returned 48 Soldiers who were fighting in defense of their homes realized that they had to desert to fulfill that duty Historian Mark Weitz argues that the official count of 103 400 deserters is too low He concludes that most of the desertions came because the soldier felt he owed a higher duty to his own family than to the Confederacy 49 Confederate policies regarding desertion generally were severe For example on August 19 1862 General Stonewall Jackson approved the court martial sentence of execution for three soldiers for desertion rejecting pleas for clemency from the soldiers regimental commander Jackson s goal was to maintain discipline in a volunteer army whose homes were under threat of enemy occupation 50 51 Historians of the Civil War have emphasized how soldiers from poor families deserted because they were urgently needed at home Local pressures mounted as Union forces occupied more and more Confederate territory putting more and more families at risk of hardship 52 One Confederate officer at the time noted The deserters belong almost entirely to the poorest class of non slave holders whose labor is indispensable to the daily support of their families and that When the father husband or son is forced into the service the suffering at home with them is inevitable It is not in the nature of these men to remain quiet in the ranks under such circumstances 53 Some soldiers also deserted from ideological motivations 54 A growing threat to the solidarity of the Confederacy was dissatisfaction in the Appalachian mountain districts caused by lingering unionism and a distrust of the power wielded by the slave holding class Many of their soldiers deserted returned home and formed a military force that fought off regular army units trying to punish them 55 56 North Carolina lost nearly a quarter of its soldiers 24 122 to desertion This was the highest rate of desertion of any Confederate state 57 58 Young Mark Twain deserted the army long before he became a famous writer and lecturer but he often commented upon the episode comically Author Neil Schmitz has examined the deep unease Twain felt about losing his honor his fear of facing death as a soldier and his rejection of a Southern identity as a professional author 59 Organization Edit CSA M1857 Napoleon Artillery Piece Because of the destruction of any central repository of records in Richmond in 1865 and the comparatively poor record keeping of the time there can be no definitive number that represents the strength of the Confederate States Army Estimates range from 500 000 to 2 000 000 soldiers who were involved at any time during the war Reports from the War Department beginning at the end of 1861 indicated 326 768 men that year 449 439 in 1862 464 646 in 1863 400 787 in 1864 and last reports showed 358 692 Estimates of enlistments throughout the war range from 1 227 890 to 1 406 180 60 The following calls for soldiers were issued March 6 1861 100 000 volunteers and militia January 23 1862 400 000 volunteers and militia April 16 1862 the First Conscription Act conscripted white men ages 18 to 35 for the duration of hostilities 61 September 27 1862 the Second Conscription Act expanded the age range to 18 to 45 62 with implementation beginning on July 15 1863 February 17 1864 the Third Conscription Act ages 17 to 50 63 March 13 1865 authorized up to 300 000 African American troops but was never fully implemented 64 The CSA was initially a strategically defensive army and many soldiers were resentful when Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia in an invasion of the North in the Antietam campaign Command Edit Further information General officers in the Confederate States Army General Robert E Lee the Confederacy s most famous general The army did not have a formal overall military commander or general in chief until late in the war The Confederate President Jefferson Davis himself a former U S Army officer and U S Secretary of War 65 served as commander in chief and provided the strategic direction for Confederate land and naval forces The following men had varying degrees of control Robert E Lee was charged with the conduct of military operations in the armies of the Confederacy from March 13 to May 31 1862 He was referred to as Davis military adviser but exercised broad control over the strategic and logistical aspects of the Army a role similar in nature to the current Chief of Staff of the United States Army On June 1 he assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia which was considered the most important of all the Confederate field armies 66 Braxton Bragg was similarly charged with the conduct of military operations in the armies of the Confederacy from February 24 1864 after he was relieved of field command following the Battle of Chattanooga to January 31 1865 This role was a military advisory position under Davis 67 Lee was formally designated general in chief by an act of Congress January 23 1865 and served in this capacity from January 31 to April 9 1865 68 The lack of centralized control was a strategic weakness for the Confederacy and there are only a few examples of its armies acting in concert across multiple theaters to achieve a common objective One instance occurred in late 1862 with Lee s invasion of Maryland coincident with two other actions Bragg s invasion of Kentucky and Earl Van Dorn s advance against Corinth Mississippi All three initiatives were unsuccessful however Georgia Governor Joseph E Brown was an extreme case of a Southern States Rights advocate asserting control over Confederate soldiers he defied the Confederate government s wartime policies and resisted the military draft Believing that local troops should be used only for the defense of Georgia 69 Brown tried to stop Colonel Francis Bartow from taking Georgia troops out of the state to the First Battle of Bull Run 70 Many of the Confederacy s senior military leaders including Robert E Lee Albert Sidney Johnston and James Longstreet and even President Jefferson Davis were former U S Army and in smaller numbers U S Navy officers who had been opposed to disapproved of or were at least unenthusiastic about secession but resigned their U S commissions upon hearing that their states had left the Union They felt that they had no choice but to help defend their homes President Abraham Lincoln was exasperated to hear of such men who professed to love their country but were willing to fight against it Personnel organization Edit As in the U S Army the Confederate Army s soldiers were organized by military specialty The combat arms included infantry cavalry and artillery Although fewer soldiers might comprise a squad or platoon the smallest infantry maneuver unit in the Army was a company of 100 soldiers Ten companies were organized into an infantry regiment which theoretically had 1 000 men In reality as disease desertions and casualties took their toll and the common practice of sending replacements to form new regiments took hold most regiments were greatly reduced in strength By the mid war most regiments averaged 300 400 men with Confederate units slightly smaller on average than their U S counterparts For example at the pivotal Battle of Chancellorsville the average U S Army infantry regiment s strength was 433 men versus 409 for Confederate infantry regiments 71 Rough unit sizes for CSA combat units during the war 72 Corps 24 000 to 28 000 Division 6 000 to 14 000 Brigade 800 to 1 700 Regiment 350 to 400 Company 35 to 40Regiments which were the basic units of army organization through which soldiers were supplied and deployed were raised by individual states They were generally referred by number and state for example 1st Texas 12th Virginia To the extent the word battalion was used to describe a military unit it referred to a multi company task force of a regiment or a near regimental size unit Throughout the war the Confederacy raised the equivalent of 1 010 regiments in all branches including militias versus 2 050 regiments for the U S Army 73 Four regiments usually formed a brigade although as the number of soldiers in many regiments became greatly reduced especially later in the war more than four were often assigned to a brigade Occasionally regiments would be transferred between brigades Two to four brigades usually formed a division Two to four divisions usually formed a corps Two to four corps usually formed an army Occasionally a single corps might operate independently as if it were a small army The Confederate States Army consisted of several field armies named after their primary area of operation The largest Confederate field army was the Army of Northern Virginia whose surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 marked the end of major combat operations in the U S Civil War Companies were commanded by captains and had two or more lieutenants Regiments were commanded by colonels Lieutenant colonels were second in command At least one major was next in command Brigades were commanded by brigadier generals although casualties or other attrition sometimes meant that brigades would be commanded by senior colonels or even a lower grade officer Barring the same type of circumstances that might leave a lower grade officer in temporary command divisions were commanded by major generals and corps were commanded by lieutenant generals A few corps commanders were never confirmed as lieutenant generals and exercised corps command for varying periods as major generals Armies of more than one corps were commanded by full generals Corporal of the Artillery division of the Confederate Army Confederate mortar crew at Warrington Florida in 1861 across from Fort Pickens Confederate artillery at Charleston Harbor 1863 Lt Col E V Nash 4th Georgia Infantry Doles Cook Brigade who was killed in 1864Ranks and insignia Edit Further information Ranks and insignia of the Confederate States Officer rank structure of the Confederate ArmyGeneral Colonel Lieutenant colonel Major Captain First lieutenant Second lieutenant General CSA Colonel Infantry shown Lieutenant colonel Headquarters shown Major Medical Corps shown Captain Marine Corps shown 1st Lieutenant Artillery shown 2nd Lieutenant Cavalry shown An 1895 illustration showing the uniforms of the Confederate Army contrasted with those of the U S Army There were four grades of general officer general lieutenant general major general and brigadier general but all wore the same insignia regardless of grade This was a decision made early in the conflict The Confederate Congress initially made the rank of brigadier general the highest rank As the war progressed the other general officer ranks were quickly added but no insignia for them was created Robert E Lee was a notable exception to this He chose to wear the rank insignia of a colonel Only seven men achieved the rank of full general 74 the highest ranking earliest date of rank was Samuel Cooper Adjutant General and Inspector General of the Confederate States Army Officers uniforms bore a braided design on the sleeves and kepi the number of adjacent strips and therefore the width of the lines of the design denoting rank The color of the piping and kepi denoted the military branch The braid was sometimes left off by officers since it made them conspicuous targets The kepi was rarely used the common slouch hat being preferred for its practicality in the Southern climate Enlisted rank structureSergeant Major Quartermaster Sergeant Ordnance Sergeant First Sergeant Sergeant Corporal Musician Private no insignia no insigniaBranch colors were used for the color of chevrons blue for infantry yellow for cavalry and red for artillery This could differ with some units however depending on available resources or the unit commander s desire Cavalry regiments from Texas for example often used red insignia and at least one Texas infantry regiment used black The CSA differed from many contemporaneous armies in that all officers under the rank of brigadier general were elected by the soldiers under their command The Confederate Congress authorized the awarding of medals for courage and good conduct on October 13 1862 but wartime difficulties prevented the procurement of the needed medals To avoid postponing recognition for their valor those nominated for the awards had their names placed on a Roll of Honor which would be read at the first dress parade after its receipt and be published in at least one newspaper in each state Armies and prominent leaders Edit The C S Army was composed of independent armies and military departments that were constituted renamed and disbanded as needs arose particularly in reaction to offensives launched by the United States These major units were generally named after states or geographic regions in comparison to the U S Army s custom of naming armies after rivers Armies were usually commanded by full generals there were seven in the C S Army or lieutenant generals Some of the more important armies and their commanders were A painting of Lee s Army of Northern Virginia fighting the U S Army at Spotsylvania in 1864 Army of Central Kentucky Simon B Buckner Albert Sidney Johnston Army of East Tennessee Edmund Kirby Smith later renamed Army of Kentucky Army of Eastern Kentucky Humphrey Marshall Army of the Kanawha Henry A Wise John B Floyd Robert E Lee Army of Kentucky Edmund Kirby Smith eventually commander of all forces West of the Mississippi Army of Louisiana Braxton Bragg Paul O Hebert Army of Mississippi March 1862 November 1862 P G T Beauregard Albert Sidney Johnston Braxton Bragg William J Hardee Leonidas Polk also known as the Army of the Mississippi redesignated Army of Tennessee on November 20 1862 December 1862 July 1863 John C Pemberton Earl Van Dorn 1863 William W Loring also known as Army of Vicksburg July 1863 June 1864 William J Hardee Leonidas Polk William W Loring also known as the Army of the Mississippi redesignated III Corps Army of Tennessee in May 1864 but continued to use its old name Army of Middle Tennessee John C Breckinridge Army of Missouri Sterling Price Army of Mobile Jones M Withers Braxton Bragg John B Villepigue Samuel Jones William L Powell John H Forney Army of New Mexico Henry H Sibley Army of Northern Virginia Joseph E Johnston Gustavus W Smith Robert E Lee First Corps Army of Northern Virginia Second Corps Army of Northern Virginia Third Corps Army of Northern Virginia Fourth Corps Army of Northern Virginia often styled Anderson s Corps Cavalry Corps Army of Northern Virginia Army of the New River Henry Heth Army of the Northwest Robert S Garnett Henry R Jackson William W Loring Edward Johnson Army of the Peninsula John B Magruder Daniel H Hill Army of Pensacola Adley H Gladden Braxton Bragg Samuel Jones Army of the Potomac P G T Beauregard Joseph E Johnston Army of the Shenandoah Joseph E Johnston Army of Tennessee Braxton Bragg Samuel Gibbs French William J Hardee Daniel H Hill John Bell Hood Joseph E Johnston Richard Taylor First Corps Army of Tennessee Second Corps Army of Tennessee Third Corps Army of Tennessee Forrest s Cavalry Corps Nathan Bedford Forrest Army of the Trans Mississippi Thomas C Hindman Theophilus Holmes Edmund Kirby Smith also known as the Army of the Southwest Army of the Valley also known as Second Corps Army of Northern Virginia Jubal Early Army of the West Earl van Dorn John P McCown Dabney H Maury Sterling Price Army of West Tennessee Earl Van Dorn Army of Western Louisiana Richard Taylor John G WalkerSome other prominent Confederate generals who led significant units operating sometimes independently in the CSA included Thomas J Stonewall Jackson James Longstreet J E B Stuart Gideon Pillow A P Hill John B Gordon Supply and logistics Edit A group of Confederate soldiers possibly an artillery unit captured at Island No 10 and taken at POW Camp Douglas Chicago photograph possibly by D F Brandon 75 Main article Confederate States of America Transportation systems The supply situation for most Confederate armies was dismal even when they were victorious on the battlefield The central government was short of money so each state government had to supply its regiments The lack of central authority and the ineffective railroads combined with the frequent unwillingness or inability of Southern state governments to provide adequate funding were key factors in the Confederate army s demise The Confederacy early on lost control of most of its major river and ocean ports to capture or blockade The road system was poor and it relied more and more on a heavily overburdened railroad system U S forces destroyed track engines cars bridges and telegraph lines as often as possible knowing that new equipment was unavailable to the Confederacy 76 Occasional raids into the North were designed to bring back money and supplies In 1864 the Confederates burned down Chambersburg a Pennsylvania city they had raided twice in the years before due to its failure to pay an extortion demand 77 As a result of severe supply problems as well as the lack of textile factories in the Confederacy and the successful U S naval blockade of Southern ports the typical Confederate soldier was rarely able to wear the standard regulation uniform particularly as the war progressed While on the march or in parade formation Confederate armies often displayed a wide array of dress ranging from faded patched together regulation uniforms rough homespun uniforms colored with homemade dyes such as butternut a yellow brown color and even soldiers in a hodgepodge of civilian clothing After a successful battle it was not unusual for victorious Confederate troops to procure U S Army uniform parts from captured supplies and dead U S soldiers this would occasionally cause confusion in later battles and skirmishes 78 Individual states were expected to supply their soldiers which led to a lack of uniformity Some states such as North Carolina were able to better supply their soldiers while other states such as Texas were unable for various reasons to adequately supply their troops as the war continued Furthermore each state often had its uniform regulations and insignia which meant that the standard Confederate uniform often featured a variety of differences based on the state the soldier came from For example uniforms for North Carolina regiments often featured a colored strip of cloth on their shoulders to designate what part of the service the soldier was in Confederate soldiers also frequently suffered from inadequate supplies of shoes tents and other gear and would be forced to innovate and make do with whatever they could scrounge from the local countryside While Confederate officers were generally better supplied and were normally able to wear a regulation officer s uniform they often chose to share other hardships such as the lack of adequate food with their troops Confederate troops marching south on N Market Street Frederick Maryland during the Civil War Confederate soldiers were also faced with inadequate food rations especially as the war progressed There was plenty of meat in the Confederacy The unsolvable problem was shipping it to the armies especially when Lee s army in Virginia was at the end of a long tenuous supply line The United States victory at Vicksburg in 1863 shut off supplies from Texas and the west 79 By 1863 Confederate generals such as Robert E Lee often spent as much time and effort searching for food for their men as they did in planning strategy and tactics Individual commanders often had to beg borrow or steal food and ammunition from whatever sources were available including captured U S depots and encampments and private citizens regardless of their loyalties Lee s campaign against Gettysburg and southern Pennsylvania a rich agricultural region was driven in part by his desperate need of supplies especially food 80 General Sherman s total warfare reduced the ability of the South to produce food and ship it to the armies or its cities Coupled with the U S blockade of all ports the devastation of plantations farms and railroads meant the Confederacy increasingly lost the capacity to feed its soldiers and civilians Native Americans and the Confederate Army EditMain article Native Americans in the American Civil War Native Americans served in both the United States and Confederate military during the American Civil War 81 82 They fought knowing they might jeopardize their freedom unique cultures and ancestral lands if they ended up on the losing side of the Civil War 81 83 During the Civil War 28 693 Native Americans served in the U S and Confederate armies participating in battles such as Pea Ridge Second Manassas Antietam Spotsylvania Cold Harbor and in Federal assaults on Petersburg 81 82 Many Native American tribes such as the Creek the Cherokee and the Choctaw were slaveholders themselves and thus found a political and economic commonality with the Confederacy 84 At the beginning of the war Albert Pike was appointed as Confederate envoy to Native Americans In this capacity he negotiated several treaties one such treaty was the Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws conducted in July 1861 The treaty covered sixty four terms covering many subjects like Choctaw and Chickasaw nation sovereignty Confederate States of America citizenship possibilities and an entitled delegate in the House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America The Cherokee Choctaw Seminole Catawba and Creek tribes were the only tribes to fight on the Confederate side The Confederacy wanted to recruit Indians east of the Mississippi River in 1862 so they opened up a recruiting camp in Mobile Alabama at the foot of Stone Street 85 The Mobile Advertiser and Register would advertise for a chance at military service A Chance for Active Service The Secretary of War has authorized me to enlist all the Indians east of the Mississippi River into the service of the Confederate States as Scouts In addition to the Indians I will receive all white male citizens who are good marksmen To each member Fifty Dollars Bounty clothes arms camp equipage amp c furnished The weapons shall be Enfield Rifles For further information address me at Mobile Ala Signed S G Spann Comm ing Choctaw Forces Jacqueline Anderson Matte They Say the Wind Is Red 85 Cherokee Edit Main article Cherokee in the American Civil War A Cherokee Confederates reunion in New Orleans 1903 Stand Watie along with a few Cherokee sided with the Confederate army in which he was made colonel and commanded a battalion of Cherokee 81 Reluctantly on October 7 1861 Chief Ross signed a treaty transferring all obligations due to the Cherokee from the United States to the Confederate States 81 The Cherokee were guaranteed protection rations of food livestock tools and other goods as well as a delegate to the Confederate Congress at Richmond 81 In exchange the Cherokee would furnish ten companies of mounted men and allow the construction of military posts and roads within the Cherokee Nation However no Indian regiment was to be called on to fight outside Indian Territory 81 As a result of the Treaty the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles led by Col John Drew was formed Following the Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas March 7 8 1862 Drew s Mounted Rifles defected to the United States forces in Kansas where they joined the Indian Home Guard In the summer of 1862 U S troops captured Chief Ross who was paroled and spent the remainder of the war in Washington and Philadelphia proclaiming Cherokee loyalty to the United States Army 81 William Holland Thomas the adopted white son of the chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recruited hundreds of Cherokees for the Confederate army particularly for Thomas Legion The Legion raised in September 1862 fought until the end of the War Choctaw Edit Jackson McCurtain Lieutenant Colonel of the First Choctaw Battalion in Oklahoma CSA Choctaw Confederate battalions were formed in Indian Territory and later in Mississippi in support of the southern cause The Choctaws who were expecting support from the Confederates got little Webb Garrison a Civil War historian describes their response when Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike authorized the raising of regiments during the fall of 1860 Seminoles Creeks Chickasaws Choctaws and Cherokees responded with considerable enthusiasm Their zeal for the Confederate cause however began to evaporate when they found that neither arms nor pay had been arranged for them A disgusted officer later acknowledged that with the exception of a partial supply for the Choctaw regiment no tents clothing or camp and garrison equipage was furnished to any of them 86 African Americans and the Confederate Army Edit 1862 illustration showing Confederates escorting kidnapped African American civilians south into slavery A similar instance occurred in Pennsylvania when the Army of Northern Virginia invaded it in 1863 to fight the U S at Gettysburg 87 88 89 90 An 1862 illustration of a Confederate officer forcing slaves at gunpoint to fire a cannon at U S soldiers in battle A similar instance occurred at the First Battle of Bull Run where slaves were forced by the Confederates to load and fire a cannon at U S forces 91 92 An 1864 cartoon lampooning the Confederacy s deliberating on the use of black soldiers showing them defecting en masse towards U S lines if such proposals were adopted Marlboro an African American body servant to a white Confederate soldier Main article Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War Confederacy With so many white males conscripted into the army and roughly 40 of its population unfree the work required to maintain a functioning society in the Confederacy ended up largely on the backs of slaves 93 Even Georgian governor Joseph E Brown noted that the country and the army are mainly dependent upon slave labor for support 94 African American slave labor was used in a wide variety of logistical support roles for the Confederacy from infrastructure and mining to teamster and medical roles such as hospital attendants and nurses 95 96 Using slaves as soldiers Edit The Confederacy did not allow African Americans to join the army neither free people nor slaves The idea of arming the Confederacy s slaves for use as soldiers was speculated on from the onset of the war but such proposals were not seriously considered by Jefferson Davis or others in the Confederate administration until late in the war when severe manpower shortages were faced 97 Gary Gallagher says When Lee publicly advocated arming slaves in early 1865 he did so as a desperate expedient that might prolong Southern military resistance 98 After acrimonious debate the Confederate Congress agreed in March 1865 The war was nearly over by then and only about two hundred slaves ended up being enlisted before the Confederate armies all surrendered 22 Opposition from Confederates Edit As early as November 1864 some Confederates knew that the chance of securing victory against the U S was slim 99 Despite lacking foreign assistance and recognition and facing slim chances of victory against superior U S assets Confederate newspapers such as the Georgian Atlanta Southern Confederacy continued to maintain their position and oppose the idea of armed black men in the Confederate Army even as late in the war as January 1865 100 They stated that it was incongruous with the Confederacy s goals and views regarding African Americans and slavery The Georgian newspaper opined that using black men as soldiers would be an embarrassment to Confederates and their children saying that although African Americans should be used for slave labor they should not be used as armed soldiers opining that Such an act on our part would be a stigma on the imperishable pages of history of which all future generations of Southrons would be ashamed These are some of the additional considerations which have suggested themselves to us Let us put the negro to work but not to fight Atlanta Southern Confederacy January 20 1865 Macon Georgia 100 Prominent Confederates such as R M T Hunter and Georgian Democrat Howell Cobb opposed arming slaves saying that it was suicidal and would run contrary to the Confederacy s ideology Opposing such a move Cobb stated that African Americans were untrustworthy and innately lacked the qualities to make good soldiers and that using them would cause many Confederates to quit the army Cobb said using blacks as soldiers would be the end of the revolution because if slaves make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong 101 102 103 The overwhelming support most Confederates had for maintaining black slavery was the primary cause of their strong opposition to using African Americans as armed soldiers Former Confederate secretary of state Robert Toombs said In my opinion the worst calamity that could befall us would be to gain our independence by the valor of our slaves instead of our own and complained using black troops would be a surrender of the entire slavery question 104 Maintaining the institution of slavery was the primary goal of the Confederacy s existence and thus using their slaves as soldiers was incongruous with that goal According to historian Paul D Escott F or a great many of the most powerful southerners the idea of arming and freeing the slaves was repugnant because the protection of slavery had been and still remained the central core of Confederate purpose Slavery was the basis of the planter class s wealth power and position in society The South s leading men of the planter class had built their world upon slavery and the idea of voluntarily destroying that world even in the ultimate crisis was almost unthinkable to them Such feelings moved Senator R M T Hunter to deliver a long speech against the bill to arm the slaves 105 Though most Confederates were opposed to the idea of using black soldiers a small number suggested the idea An acrimonious and controversial debate was raised by a letter from Patrick Cleburne 106 urging the Confederacy to raise black soldiers by offering emancipation Jefferson Davis refused to consider the proposal and issued instructions forbidding the matter from being discussed 107 It would not be until Robert E Lee wrote the Confederate Congress urging them that the idea would take serious traction 108 On March 13 1865 22 the Confederate Congress passed General Order 14 109 110 by a single vote in the Confederate senate 22 111 and Jefferson Davis signed the order into law The order was issued March 23 but as it was late in the war only a few African American companies were raised in the Richmond area before the town was captured by the U S Army and placed back under U S control 112 According to historian James M McPherson in 1994 no black soldiers fought in the Confederate army unless they were passing as white 113 He noted that some Confederates brought along their body servants who in many cases had grown up with them and that on occasion some of those body servants were known to have picked up a rifle and fought But there was no official recruitment of black soldiers in the Confederate army until the very end of the war He continued But Appomattox came only a few weeks later and none of these men were ever put in uniform to fight 22 Treatment of black civilians Edit In some cases the Confederates forced their African American slaves to fire upon U S soldiers at gunpoint 91 92 such as at the First Battle of Bull Run According to John Parker a slave who was forced by the Confederates to fight Union soldiers Our masters tried all they could to make us fight They promised to give us our freedom and money besides but none of us believed them we only fought because we had to Parker stated that had he been given an opportunity he would have turned against his Confederate captors and could do it with pleasure 91 92 According to abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet in 1862 he had met a slave who had unwillingly fought on the side of Rebellion but the slave had since defected to the side of Union and universal liberty 92 During the siege of Yorktown The United States Army s elite sniper unit the 1st United States Sharpshooters was devastatingly effective at shooting Confederate artillerymen defending the city In response some Confederate artillery crews started forcing slaves to load the cannons They forced their negroes to load their cannon reported a U S officer They shot them if they would not load the cannon and we shot them if they did 114 In other cases under explicit orders from their commanders Confederate armies would often forcibly kidnap free African American civilians during their incursions into Union territory sending them south into Confederate territory and thus enslaving them as was the case with the Army of Northern Virginia when it invaded Pennsylvania in 1863 115 116 Treatment of black prisoners of war Edit The usage of black men as soldiers by the Union combined with Abraham Lincoln s issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation profoundly angered the Confederacy 117 with the Confederates calling it uncivilized 118 As a response in May 1863 the Confederacy passed a law demanding full and ample retaliation against the United States stating that any black person captured in arms against the Confederate States or giving aid and comfort to their enemies would be turned over to state authorities where they could be tried as slave insurrectionists a capital offense punishable with a sentence of death 119 120 However Confederate authorities feared retaliation and consequently no black prisoner was ever put on trial and executed 121 James McPherson states that Confederate troops sometimes murdered black soldiers and their officers as they tried to surrender In most cases though Confederate officers returned captured black soldiers to slavery or put them to hard labor on southern fortifications 122 123 African American soldiers who served in the United States Colored Troops were often singled out by the Confederates and suffered extra violence when captured by them 87 They were often the victims of battlefield massacres and atrocities at the hands of the Confederates 87 most notably at Fort Pillow in Tennessee and at the Battle of the Crater in Virginia 124 125 Prisoner exchanges with the United States Edit The Confederate law declaring black U S soldiers to be insurrectionist slaves combined with the Confederacy s discriminatory mistreatment of captured black U S soldiers became a stumbling block for prisoner exchanges between the United States and the Confederacy as the U S government in the Lieber Code officially objected to the Confederacy s discriminatory mistreatment of prisoners of war on basis of color 126 127 The Republican Party s platform of the 1864 presidential election reflected this view as it too condemned the Confederacy s discriminatory mistreatment of captured black U S soldiers 128 According to the authors of Liberty Equality Power Expressing outrage at this treatment in 1863 the Lincoln administration suspended the exchange of prisoners until the Confederacy agree to treat white and black prisoners alike The Confederacy refused 126 Statistics and size Edit Julian Scott s 1873 painting Surrender of a Confederate Soldier Incomplete and destroyed records make an accurate count of the number of soldiers who served in the Confederate army impossible Historians provide estimates of the actual number of individual Confederate soldiers between 750 000 and 1 000 000 troops 129 The exact number is unknown Since these figures include estimates of the total number of individual soldiers who served in each army at any time during the war they do not represent the size of the armies at any given date Confederate casualty figures are as incomplete and unreliable as the figures on the number of Confederate soldiers The best estimates of the number of deaths of Confederate soldiers appear to be about 94 000 killed or mortally wounded in battle 164 000 deaths from disease and between 26 000 and 31 000 deaths in Union prison camps In contrast about 25 000 Union soldiers died as a result of accidents drowning murder killed after capture suicide execution for various crimes execution by the Confederates 64 sunstroke other and not stated Confederate casualties for all these reasons are unavailable Since some Confederate soldiers would have died for these reasons more total deaths and total casualties for the Confederacy must have occurred One estimate of the Confederate wounded which is considered incomplete is 194 026 another is 226 000 At the end of the war 174 223 men of the Confederate forces surrendered to the Union Army 130 131 Compared to the Union Army at the time the Confederate Army was not very ethnically diverse Ninety one percent of Confederate soldiers were native born white men and only nine percent were foreign born white men Irishmen being the largest group with others including Germans French Mexicans and British A small number of Asian men were forcibly inducted into the Confederate Army against their will when they arrived in Louisiana from overseas 132 See also Edit American Civil War portalConfederate States Navy Blockade runners of the American Civil War General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States Confederate Government Civil War units Confederate States Marine Corps Military of the Confederate States of America Uniforms of the Confederate States Armed Forces Uniforms of the Confederate military Bibliography of the American Civil War Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln Bibliography of Ulysses S Grant Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate StatesReferences Edit Civil War Facts American Battlefield Trust August 16 2011 C S War Dept p 402 On February 8 1861 delegates from the first seven Deep South slave states which had already declared their secession from the Union of the United States of America met at Montgomery the state capital of Alabama adopted the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States Records of the number of individuals who served in the United States Army are more extensive and reliable but still are not entirely accurate Estimates of the number of individual Union soldiers range between 1 550 000 and 2 400 000 with a number between 2 000 000 and 2 200 000 most likely Union Army records show slightly more than 2 677 000 enlistments but this number apparently includes many re enlistments These numbers do not include sailors who served in United States Navy or United States Marine Corps These figures represent the total number of individual soldiers who served at any time during the war not the size of the army at any given date Albert Burton Moore Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy 1924 In comparison the best estimates of the number of Union military personnel deaths are 110 100 killed or mortally wounded 224 580 deaths from disease and 30 192 deaths in Confederate prison camps although some historians also dispute these figures The best conjecture for Union Army wounded is 275 175 Confederate forces at Mobile Alabama and Columbus Georgia also had already surrendered on April 14 1865 and April 16 1865 respectively U S and Confederate units fought a battle at Columbus Georgia before the surrender on April 16 1865 and a small final battle at Palmito Ranch Texas on May 12 1865 In areas more distant from the main theaters of operations Confederate forces in Alabama and Mississippi under Lieutenant General Richard Taylor in Arkansas under Brigadier General M Jeff Thompson in Louisiana and Texas under General E Kirby Smith and in Indian Territory under Brigadier General Stand Watie surrendered on May 4 1865 May 12 1865 May 26 1865 officially June 2 1865 and June 28 1865 respectively Eric Foner 1988 Reconstruction America s Unfinished Revolution 1863 1877 p 15 ISBN 9780062035868 Hamner Christopher Deserters in the Civil War Teachinghistory org teachinghistory org Retrieved August 3 2018 James M McPherson June 2004 The Most Fearful Ordeal Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and Reporters of The New York Times St Martin s Press p 55 ISBN 978 0 312 33123 8 Spencer 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Inc pp 109 110 ISBN 0 19 509 023 3 Retrieved April 1 2016 It would be wrong however to assume that Confederate soldiers were constantly preoccupied with this matter Only 20 percent of the sample of 429 Southern soldiers explicitly voiced proslavery convictions in their letters or diaries As one might expect a much higher percentage of soldiers from slaveholding families than from non slaveholding families expressed such a purpose 33 percent compared with 12 percent Ironically the proportion of Union soldiers who wrote about the slavery question was greater as the next chapter will show There is a ready explanation for this apparent paradox Emancipation was a salient issue for Union soldiers because it was controversial Slavery was less salient for most Confederate soldiers because it was not controversial They took slavery for granted as one of the Southern rights and institutions for which they fought and did not feel compelled to discuss it Although only 20 percent of the soldiers avowed explicit proslavery purposes in their letters and diaries none at all dissented from that view James M McPherson For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War 1997 p ix In both the Union and Confederate samples foreign born soldiers are substantially underrepresented In the Union sample only 9 percent of soldiers were born abroad in the Confederate Army compared with 24 percent of all Union Army soldiers Unskilled and even skilled laborers are underrepresented in both samples Nonslaveholding farmers are underrepresented in the Confederate sample Indeed while about one third of all Confederate soldiers belonged to slaveholding families slightly more than two thirds of the sample whose slaveholding status is known did so Officers are overrepresented in both samples While some 10 percent of Civil War soldiers served as officers for at least half of their time in the army 47 percent of the Confederate sample and 35 percent of the Union sample did so Both samples are also 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The Old Dominion in the Civil War 1990 pp 242 43 a b Murrin John McPherson James M Johnson Paul Fahs Alice Gerstle Gary 2009 Liberty Equality Power Enhanced Concise Fourth Edition Belmont California Cengage Learning p 433 ISBN 978 0495565987 Confederate troops sometimes murdered black soldiers and their officers as they tried to surrender In most cases though Confederate officers returned captured black soldiers to slavery or put them to hard labor on southern fortifications Expressing outrage at this treatment in 1863 the Lincoln administration suspended the exchange of prisoners until the Confederacy agree to treat white and black prisoners alike The Confederacy refused Townsend E D April 24 1863 SECTION III Deserters Prisoners of war Hostages Booty on the battle field INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE FIELD Washington Archived from the original on April 7 2001 Retrieved April 7 2001 58 The law of nations knows of no distinction of color and if an enemy of the United States should enslave and sell any captured persons of their army it would be a case for the severest retaliation if not redressed upon complaint Republican Party of the United States June 7 1864 Republican Party Platform of 1864 Archived from the original on April 21 2015 T he Government owes to all men employed in its armies without regard to distinction of color the full protection of the laws of war and that any violation of these laws or of the usages of civilized nations in time of war by the Rebels now in arms should be made the subject of prompt and full redress Long E B The Civil War Day by Day An Almanac 1861 1865 Garden City NY Doubleday 1971 OCLC 68283123 p 705 Fact Sheet America s Wars United States Department of Veterans Affairs November 2008 Archived from the original on July 30 2009 Long 1971 p 711 Davis Burke 1960 Civil War Strange and Fascinating Facts Random House Further reading EditAdams George Worthington 1940 Confederate Medicine Journal of Southern History 6 2 2 151 166 doi 10 2307 2191203 JSTOR 2191203 Allardice Bruce 1997 West Points of the Confederacy Southern Military Schools and the Confederate Army Civil War History 43 4 Bledsoe Andrew S Citizen Officers The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War Baton Rouge Louisiana Louisiana State University Press 2015 ISBN 978 0 8071 6070 1 Crawford Martin 1991 Confederate Volunteering and Enlistment in Ashe County North Carolina 1861 1862 Civil War History 37 1 29 50 doi 10 1353 cwh 1991 0031 Crute Joseph H Jr 1987 Units of the Confederate States Army 2nd ed Gaithersburg Olde Soldier Books ISBN 0 942211 53 7 Daniel Larry J 2003 Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army Eicher David J 2001 Civil War High Commands Stanford University Press ISBN 978 0 8047 3641 1 Faust Drew Gilpin 1987 Christian Soldiers The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army In The Journal of Southern History Vol 53 No 1 Feb 1987 pp 63 90 Freemon Frank R 1987 Administration of the Medical Department of the Confederate States Army 1861 to 1865 Southern Medical Journal 80 5 630 637 doi 10 1097 00007611 198705000 00019 PMID 3554537 Haughton Andrew 2000 Training Tactics and Leadership in the Confederate Army of Tennessee Seeds of Failure Jones Adam Matthew The land of my birth and the home of my heart Enlistment Motivations for Confederate Soldiers in Montgomery County Virginia 1861 1862 MA thesis Virginia Tech 2014 online bibliography pp 123 30 Levine Bruce 2005 Confederate Emancipation Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War Logue Larry M 1993 Who Joined the Confederate Army Soldiers Civilians and Communities in Mississippi Journal of Social History 26 3 3 611 623 doi 10 1353 jsh 26 3 611 JSTOR 3788629 Sheehan Dean Aaron Justice Has Something to Do with It Class Relations and the Confederate Army Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 113 2005 340 377 Sheehan Dean Aaron Why Confederates Fought Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia 2007 online Warner Ezra J Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders LSU Press 1959 Watson Samuel J 1994 Religion and combat motivation in the Confederate armies Journal of Military History 58 1 29 55 doi 10 2307 2944178 JSTOR 2944178 Weinert Richard P Jr 1991 The Confederate Regular Army White Mane Publishing ISBN 978 0 942597 27 1 Weitz Mark A 2005 More Damning than Slaughter Desertion in the Confederate Army U of Nebraska Press Wiley Bell Irvin The Life of Johnny Reb The Common Soldier of the Confederacy 1943 Wright Marcus J 1983 General Officers of the Confederate Army J M Carroll amp Co ISBN 978 0 8488 0009 3 Historiography Edit Sheehan Dean Aaron The Blue and Gray in Black and White Assessing the Scholarship on Civil War Soldiers in Aaron Sheehan Dean ed The View from the Ground Experiences of Civil War Soldiers University Press of Kentucky 2007 pp 9 30 Primary sources Edit Confederate States War Dept Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States Richmond J W Randolph 1863 Robson John S 2007 How A One Legged Rebel Lives Reminiscences of the Civil War The Story of the Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson Kessinger Publishing ISBN 978 1 84685 665 5 U S War Department 1880 1901 The War of the Rebellion a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies U S Government Printing OfficeExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Confederate States Army Wikiquote has quotations related to Confederate States of America Confederate soldiers A Manual of Military Surgery 1863 The manual used by doctors in the CSA U S Civil War Era Uniforms and Accouterments collections strong Duke University Libraries Digital Collections William Emerson Strong Photograph Album 200 cartes de visite depicting officers in the Confederate army and navy officials in the Confederate government famous Confederate wives and other notable figures of the Confederacy Also included are 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