Confederate States of America

Firstly with the proposed Crittenden Compromise of 1860, an unsuccessful attempt to stop Southern states from seceding by permitting slavery below the Mason-Dixon line across America. However, this move was blocked in the House by anti-slavery Republicans. When the seceded state of South Carolina fired on the federal reserve of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Lincoln called for 75000 troops to help stop the rebellion. With this action eight more slave states would secede, creating the Confederacy and starting the Civil War. It must be remembered that the Union did not immediately respond with actions such as the Emancipation Proclamation, as this would not occur until the descent into 'total war' in 1862.

No, South Dakota was a part of the Dakota Territory and still under Union or United States control. It became the 40th state in 1889, long after the US Civil War.

Although Robert E. lee's Army of Northern Virginia lost almost one third of its fighting force to casualties, Lee's retreat back to Virginia allowed him to refurbish the army's losses.
New recruits volunteered in the aftermath of the battle and conscription added to Lee's army's manpower. Although the North had more resources to rebuild the Army of the Potomac, it was Lee's army that proportionately gained more strength. Also, Lee was able to resupply his army and it grew in size to 80,000 troops. His men were judged to be in better physical shape than the Army of the Potomac.
The aftermath increased the odds to three to two in favor of the Union's previously much larger ratio vs the Souths.

Early in 1861, there was jubilation in the Confederacy when they captured the US naval yard at Norfolk, Virginia. The Confederates seized 1,000 cannons. This included 300 of the latest cannons called Dahlgren cannons. These were powerful weapons. Also, the South captured the US arsenal at Harper's Ferry and took all the weapons and munitions they found there.

The Montgomery Convention in February 1861 established the first provisional form of the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis was made provisional President and a committee wrote the first constitution for the Confederacy. There were representatives from 7 seceded states and 2 more that were in the process of seceding.

Virginia voted to secede on Apr. 17, 1861. The secession vote was ratified by the citizens of Virginia on May 23. Virginia then existed as an independent republic until it joined the Confederacy on June. 19, 1861.

On February 17, 1864, the Confederacy passed its final conscription act of the US Civil War. The new act expanded the ages of potential draftees.

William T. Sherman was a West Point graduate and in charge of a military college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the start of the war. Confederate President Jefferson Davis offered Sherman a commission in the Southern army. Both men were West Point graduates. Also, generals from both sides had joined the opposition, so there was a precedent for this. Sherman declined the offer.

Jefferson Davis was named as temporary President of the Confederacy in 1861. The following year the Confederate Congress voted him for a six year term as president. Davis grew up in Mississippi, and thus it can be said he was the Mississippian voted to be the Confederate president.

The term used to describe the Southern States exit from the United States was called succession. The Confederacy declared itself to be an independent nation.

The CSS David was a different type of warship. It was semi-submersible. The David would submerge until its deck was hidden. Only the hatchway and smokestack was above the waterline. The idea behind this weapon was to ram a torpedo at a Union ship then back away to avoid the torpedo explosion.

The Confederacy had huge expenditures during the US Civil War. This hampered the rate of pay for the common soldier at the rank of private. Pay for them was $11 per month.

At the beginning of the US Civil War, some of the the Confederate army uniforms were a butternut color. Grey was introduced as soon as these color uniforms could be produced. The US army already had blue uniforms and remained with that color.

In the months preceding the formal start of the American Civil War, the tactics utilized by both the South Carolinian forces surrounding the Union garrison of Fort Sumter and that garrison itself consisted primarily of 'waiting out the enemy'; that is, neither side initially made any aggressive tactical moves against the other. Eventually, the Union made use of sea-borne transport in an effort to resupply the garrison: the South Carolinians responded with an overwhelming cannon-bombardment that quickly forced the surrender of the fort's occupants.

With all said above, the primary battle tactic used in the conflict at Fort Sumter was artillery fire.

Just prior to the US Civil War, Thomas Jonathan Jackson was a mathematics professor at the Virginia Military Institute. He entered the Confederacy as a colonel. He later was to become a Civil War legend.

The rank of lieutenant general was established by the Confederate Congress in 1862. Out of respect for George Washington, who held this high rank, the Union waited until February of 1864 to do this. Basically this rank was requested by US President Lincoln for his new general in chief, US Grant.

The single most consistent advantage for the South during the US Civil War was that they only needed a successful defensive war to win independence.

Montgomery, Alabama, was the first capital if the Confederacy, but Richmond, Virginia became the capital in 1861.

It was Jefferson Davis that made the wise move to set the Confederate capital 100 miles south of Washington DC.

Fighting Joe.

Jefferson Davis is best known as the President of the Confederate States of America. Prior to that, he was the U.S. Senator from Mississippi and a member of the U.S. House of Representative representing Mississippi. He was the U.S. Secretary of War from March 1853 until March 1857. He served in the U.S. Army and fought in the Mexican-American War.

For the majority of its existence, the capital of the CSA was Richmond, Virginia. The state capitals of the Confederacy were the same as they are presently in those states.

Slavery, and the manifest destiny which was a belief that the US must expand led to Kansas-Nebraska Act of succession. Also the views of Stephen A. Douglas played a part.

Alabama was among the first seven states to secede from the Union and was the home of the first Confederate capital which was at Montgomery.

There many military officers who resigned their US military commissions to become commanders in the Confederacy. Certainly the most prominent ones were Robert E. Lee and Albert S. Johnston.

Congress could not regulate foreign and interstate commerce.