The Confederate States in the Civil War

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This map shows all allegiances claimed by the Confederate States.

Population and Demographics

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Antebellum Confederate States

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Conflict

1860
1861
1862
  • December 10, 1862 - Kentucky is admitted as a Confederate State despite not having officially seceded from the Union
1863
  • June 23, 1863 - Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General's office issued General Orders #86 outlining the regulations for their organizations
    • Units usually organized on the company and battalion level for defense of the areas in which they were raised
    • Frequently composed of employees of government arsenals, armories, bureaus, or from men detailed from regular line detached service
    • Towards the end of the war, some of these units were organized into regiments
1864
  • February 17, 1864 - Confederate Congress creates Reserves - troops that did not have to serve beyond the boundaries of the state
    • Expanded conscription to include all white males between the ages of 17 and 50 years of age
    • Those under 18 and over 45 organized into the Reserves
1865

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Units from the Confederate States

Note that this list does not include all units sent by the Confederate States to the conflict, but rather the units raised by and designated as Confederate States troops. Because the Confederate States of America did not yet have a developed federal apparatus for raising troops, states often sent individual companies to fulfill a Confederate-designated unit. These units were sometimes subsequently broken up with the companies returned to their original state designations. To view lists of units sent by each individual state, use the 'search' function to the left to find the correct state or unit.


Determining a Unit's Designation

Generally, a unit's most basic designation uses the following formula:

NUMBER + STATE + BRANCH
ex. 1st Alabama Infantry
NUMBER

Refers most often to the chronological order in which the unit raised
STATE

State from which the unit was raised or credited, or raised by the Confederate States government
BRANCH

Function of the armed services in which the unit primarily served - Infantry, Cavalry, or Heavy/Light Artillery


However, designations changed often throughout the war, sometimes the same unit being renamed several times. Units were disbanded, reformed, re-designated, consolidated, etc. so often, particularly in the Confederate armies, that distinguishing one unit from another can be incredibly confusing. Some units even preferred to include the word Volunteers in the designation, despite the rise in numbers of draftees among the ranks at the end of the war. The WotRWiki uses a more advanced formula below to designate unique units in the database; however any local unit names and aliases are recorded on the unit homepage whenever possible:


(ROMAN NUMERAL) + (NAME OR LOCATION) + (NUMBER) + STATE + (DESCRIPTOR 1) + BRANCH + UNIT SIZE + (DESCRIPTOR 2)
(ROMAN NUMERAL) Used most often to distinguish different iterations of the same unit
(NAME OR LOCATION) Sometimes Confederate units carried the same numerical designations while in active service
(NUMBER) Refers most often to the chronological order in which the unit raised
STATE State from which the unit was raised or credited, or raised by the Confederate States government
(DESCRIPTOR 1)
BRANCH Function of the armed services in which the unit primarily served - Infantry, Cavalry, or Heavy/Light Artillery
UNIT SIZE
(DESCRIPTOR 2)


Units Raised by the Confederate States Government

Indian Troops

In the summer and fall of 1861, Confederate Indian Commissioner Albert Pike signed treaties of alliance with various Indian tribes in the Indian Territory. Although many tribes initially sided with the Confederacy, they later ended up as units in the Union Army's Indian Home Guard regiments.

Records from these units are often sketchy (at best) and incomplete, as units often disbanded and reformed at will. Often these new organizations took new designations or were referred to by different commanders. Similarly, the commanders are often listed as being from Oklahoma, though more research is needed as to their true state of origin.

CHEROKEE

CHICKASAW

CHOCTAW

CREEK

OSAGE

SEMINOLE

MIXED UNITS


Casualties from the Confederate States

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Notes

  1. Unit appears to be listed twice in Sifakis

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