Confederate soldiers
Dixie's armed forces
Confederate soldiers were military personnel who fought for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
The term typically refers to the armed forces defending Southern secession and the institution of slavery against the Union.
His great-great-grandfather was a Confederate soldier at Gettysburg.
The phrase sometimes appears in debates over monuments and historical memory.
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- VirginiaMid-Atlantic American state
- Abraham LincolnCivil War era leader
- infantryGround combat troops
- gray uniformMuted official clothing
Johnny Reb · Civil War · Battle of Gettysburg · conscription · antebellum · Dixie · South Carolina · cavalry · butternut · musket fire · plantation economy · blockade runner · Jefferson Davis · Ulysses S. Grant · regiment · rebel yell · Reconstruction · battalion
- Civil War Infantryriflemen, battle formations, battle lines, skirmishers, privates
- Civil War recordsmilitary records, battle maps, service records, Union Army, casualty lists
- AntietamBattle of Antietam, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Clara Barton, North Woods
- Civil War Navalgunboat, Union blockade, blockade runners, naval battle, blockade running
Confederate soldiersUnion soldiers
Northern army in 1860s
Union troops · Union Army · Federal troops · Yankees · boys in blue
confederate, soldiers, soldier, confederation, confederacy, confederated, confederating, soldiery, soldiering