During the American Civil War, the Confederacy's initial military plan was a simple but enviable one: to defend its territory from Union incursions. Not needing to invade the Union in order to survive, the Confederacy only needed to parry any attacks that the Union might make against it.
During the Civil War, the Union army focused on conquiring Southern land and freeing Confederate slaves.
Jefferson Finis Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union.
A Confederate force is to be understood as a military unit or more military units, whose consistency is not better specified, pertaining to the CSA Army and performing a military operation.
General Robert E. Lee was the leader of the Confederate army. He was considered the best trained military man at the time.
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General Robert E. Lee was the leader of the Confederate army. He was considered the best trained military man at the time.
It was an American attack on a confederate military base.
Anna Ella Carroll was the daughter of Gov. Thomas King Carroll. She wrote pamphlets for Abraham Lincoln on the Emancipation Proclamation. She gathered intelligence for the Union on Confederate military plans.
Radical Reconstruction was the imposition of military government in the South after the Civil War, in order to punish the former Confederate states and enforce the abolishment of slavery. Abraham Lincoln disagreed with the plans of the Radical Republicans in Congress, who instituted the military control of the South after his assassination,
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Confederate General had become the military advisor to Jefferson Davis on March 13, 1862. Davis respected the military know-how of Lee and together they operated the Confederate war operations in Virginia.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis was asked by the Confederate Congress what he believed were important military requirements. Davis wanted to increase the South's military forces by 300,000 troops and have fifty ironclads for harbor and river defense. He also wanted at least ten new raider warships to protect Confederate overseas commerce.