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unusual facts about Confederate Army



Elisha Johnson

During the American Civil War Union Army General William Sherman's soldiers destroyed the Tellico Iron Works but Sherman acquitted Johnson for his part in supplying the Confederate Army because of Johnson's northern birth and sympathies.

Fort Macon State Park

In the 1840s, a system of erosion control was initially engineered by Robert E. Lee, who later became general of the Confederate Army.

Francis Charles Lawley

With his career in ruins he moved to the United States in 1856, becoming a correspondent for The Times covering the American Civil War with the Confederate Army, and authored several books including The Bench and the Jockey Club and The Life and Times of the Druid, as well as contributing to magazines such as St Paul's Magazine.

Given Campbell

Campbell entered the Confederate Army under General Sterling Price, and served through the war as a cavalryman under Generals Morgan, Forrest, and Wheeler.

Glorieta Pass

The victory by the Union Army (primarily in the form of the Colorado Militia) prevented the breakout of the Confederate Army forces onto the High Plains on the east side of Sangre de Cristo Mountains, halting the intended Confederate advance northward along the base of the Rocky Mountains.

Gorgas machine gun

The Gorgas machine gun (or sometimes just a Gorgas gun) was a manually cranked prototype machine gun, the creation of Confederate States General Josiah Gorgas.

Immortal Six Hundred

In 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned 50 Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon civilians in the city.

Jacob Hoke

As the Confederate Army began invading the town in late June 1863, he had an excellent vantage point to observe and watch the movements of the Southern soldiers.

James Henderson Berry

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Berry joined the Confederate Army and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

James Reasoner Civil War Series

The series centers on the fictional Brannon family, which resides in Culpeper, Virginia, a village and county in north central Virginia north of the Rapidan River that served as a major supply depot for the Confederate army.

John E. Hart

They were put in contact with Confederate Army Captain William Walter Leake, a company commander with the 1st Louisiana Cavalry, who was home on furlough.

John Sergeant Wise

He fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was Virginia Military Institute New Market Cadet at the Battle of New Market.

Mary Anna Jackson

Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (July 21, 1831–March 24, 1915) was the second wife, and subsequently widow, of Confederate Army general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

Nolensville, Tennessee

Gen. John Wharton's Confederate cavalry unit was stationed in town briefly and Gen. Joseph Wheeler's command captured a Union supply train here on December 30, 1862.

Oak Grove Butterfield Stage Station

At about the same time Dan Showalter's party of secessionists were attempting to avoid the post and make their way across the desert to join the Confederate Army in Texas.

Otelia M. McGill

Otelia McGill is credited with preserving many of her famous father's papers, chronicling his career in building and operating Virginia's railroads, serving in the Confederate Army, and his political career as leader during Reconstruction of the Readjuster Party.

Peace Center

The center was opened in 1990 and is built on the former site of three dilapidated factories - one building wagons for the Confederate Army, a textile plant built in the 1880s, and a building serving as the home for Duke's Mayonnaise.

White's Ford

It was used in many major actions, including the crossing into Maryland of the Confederate army prior to the Maryland Campaign and Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart's ride around Union Major General George B. McClellan on October 10, 1862, when he used the ford to cross into Loudoun County, Virginia.

William H. Seymour

At the outset of the American Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army, becoming an artillery sergeant and receiving an honorable discharge.

William R. Terry

William Richard Terry (March 12, 1827 – March 28, 1897) was a businessman, politician, prison superintendent and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.


see also

Battle of Yungay

On January 20, 1839, the alliance formed Chilean Army led by Chilean General in Chief Manuel Bulnes and force of Peruvians opposed to Santa Cruz, decisively defeated the Confederate Army commanded by Santa Cruz after six hours of combat in the battlefield of Yungay, in northern Peru, 200 km north of Lima.

Bryan County, Oklahoma

General Albert Pike established Fort McCulloch for the Confederate Army near the present town of Kenefic on the Blue River.

Charles Frazier

It traces the journey of Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War.

Charles W. McClammy

He enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861, and by successive promotions became major in the Third North Carolina Cavalry Regiment and served throughout the American Civil War.

Clay family

Nathaniel W. Watkins (1796-1876), Confederate Army brigadier general and Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.

Daniel Adams

Daniel Weisiger Adams (1821–1872), brigadier general in the Confederate Army

George H. Sharpe

In April 1865, as head of the Bureau of Military Information and assistant provost marshal, he paroled 28,000 Confederate Army soldiers, among them General Robert E. Lee, after the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.

German Americans in the Civil War

In the spring of 1862, German Texans from Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country, mostly Unionist or neutral in their political views, were drafted into the Confederate Army over their strong objections.

Gloria Jahoda

Her essays include a description of Dr. John Gorrie's quest to make ice in the Florida Panhandle, the story of Natural Bridge where the Confederate Army had their final victory, the inspiration composer Frederick Delius received from Black native music in Florida as well as various local fishermen, turpentine tappers, preachers, and other characters who lived in the rural area.

Herman Haupt

After the Battle of Gettysburg, Haupt boarded one of his trains and arrived at the White House on July 6, 1863, being the first to inform President Lincoln that General Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederate army was not being pursued vigorously by Union Major General George G. Meade.

Indian Mountain State Park

A road connecting Campbell County with Kentucky passed through the area, and may have been used by a detachment of the Confederate Army of East Tennessee to invade Kentucky in 1862 during the U.S. Civil War.

J. G. M. Ramsey

As rumors spread that the Confederate Army was planning to release Brownlow, the elder Ramsey wrote to Jefferson Davis, calling Brownlow the "prime mover and instigator" of Union sentiment in the region, and demanded he be court-martialed.

John Cooke

John Esten Cooke (1830–1886), American novelist, Confederate Army officer

John Mills Allen

He attended the common schools during the Civil War, enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army, and served throughout the war.

Joseph Johnston

Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), United States and Confederate Army general

Journey to Shiloh

Seven young Texans in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, The Concho County Comanches, journey to Shiloh, Tennessee where a major battle is about to take place.

Julian Edward Wood

Wood served as a corporal in Company C in the V.M.I. Cadet Corps which was ordered in May 1864 to join the Confederate Army of Major General John C. Breckinridge, who was attempting to stop a Union advance up the Shenandoah Valley.

Julius Eckhardt Raht

Raht at first continued to operate them in an attempt to protect the investments of the owners in New York and New Orleans; but in 1863, after he was forced to purchase a Confederate army substitute and Federal troops destroyed the rail facilities and copper rolling mill in nearby Cleveland, Raht crossed the lines to live out the remainder of the war in Cincinnati, where there was a significant German community.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, fought here between General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union army and Joseph E. Johnston of the Confederate army, took place between June 18, 1864, and July 2, 1864.

Lexington, Tennessee

Union Colonel Robert Ingersoll sent his troops to destroy a bridge over the Beech Creek to disallow Confederate army to move into the area.

McAlester

J. J. McAlester (1842–1920), American Confederate Army soldier and merchant

Munnerlyn

Charles James Munnerlyn (1822–1898), American politician and Confederate Army soldier

Philip H. Gilbert

For four years, Gilbert served in the Confederate Army and was a first lieutenant of the Trans-Mississippi Division.

Quentin Turnbull

According to that film's storyline, Turnbull is a former general officer in the Confederate Army, who, after the Battle of Gettysburg, intentionally targets civilians - hospitals, churches, schools - in an attempt to turn the Union's people against their government (in effect, becoming a proto-terrorist).

Robert Breckinridge

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr. (1833 – 1915), Confederate Congressman and colonel in the Confederate Army

Robert Lee Russell

He was named in honor of Confederate Army General, Robert E. Lee.

Robert Selden Garnett

Robert S. Garnett (1819–1861), U.S. Army officer and Confederate Army general

Rural Hill, Tennessee

Rural Hill is also mentioned at least twice in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I Volume 20 mentions two skirmishes between Union patrols and advanced confederate outposts from the Confederate Army of Tennessee, then under the command of Gen. Braxton Bragg and encamped in Murfreesboro.

Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery

William Gilham (1818-1872): VMI instructor, Confederate Army colonel

Francis Henney Smith (1812-1890): First superintendent of VMI, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia militia major general

The Guns of the South

The men call their organization "America Will Break" (or "AWB"), and offer to supply the Confederate army with these rifles, which they refer to as AK-47s.

Tredegar Iron Works

In Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of alternate history novels, in which the South wins the Civil War, the Confederate Army's standard rifle is called the Tredegar, produced by what is by then called the Tredegar Steel Works.

William Harding Jackson

John Harding's son, Confederate Army General William Giles Harding was Bill Jackson's great-grandfather; he built the Belle Meade Mansion in 1853.