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its the southern army
Most people in the South that were in the Confederate army were fighting for an independent Southern nation. The rank and file soldier was not fighting for the preservation of slavery.
The Southern army is known as the "Confederate" army. The Northern army is known as the "Union" army.
The "confederate" army.
'the union' and the southern was 'the rebels'
"Stonewall" Jackson's Corps of the Confederate Army started the fighting on August 27,1862.
The Union Army in the North and the Confederate Army in the South
The Union Army was fighting to preserve the federate states vs the confederate states
Within the large parameters of the Confederate military, there were any number of names given to large armies in the US Civil War. For example, two large Southern armies were the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee.
Southern Army (also called the Confederate Army, Rebel Army, Gray Coats).
Army of Northern Virginia or the Army of Tennessee and Northern armies were called the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee.
Provisional Confederate president, Jefferson Davis began the process of building a Southern army in March of 1861. He created the army by calling for 100,000 volunteers to serve for twelve months. This was called the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.