Confederate veterans
Dixie's former soldiers
Confederate veterans are former soldiers who fought for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
The term appears most often in historical contexts—monuments, cemeteries, memorial organizations, and debates over Civil War commemoration: The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected monuments honoring Confederate veterans.
After the war, organizations like the United Confederate Veterans provided fraternal support for aging soldiers and shaped how the South remembered the conflict.
- Lost CausePro-Confederate historical revisionism
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- Southern heritageCultural traditions of Dixie
- infantry regimentsMilitary units of ground troops
battle flags · gray uniforms · rebel yell · cavalry units · pension systems · Memorial Day · honor guard · Civil War reenactments · Emancipation Proclamation · Gettysburg · war wounds · Southern literature · Jefferson Davis · military strategy · oral histories · war diaries · battlefield tactics · historical preservation
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