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Confederate Provisional President Jefferson Davis created the first Confederate army in March of 1861. He called for 100,000 men to serve for twelve months. The army's name was the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. Davis named its first office, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard to the position of brigadier general. He was a USMA graduate.

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