Confederate States of America

The South used its cavalry forces to constantly attack Union supply and communications lines. As Union troops advanced into Southern territory, their lines of supply and communications became longer and more susceptible to Southern raiders. As early as 1863, the Union had to devote one third of its forces to protect its lines of communications and to garrison conquered territory.

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Because Lincoln had changed the official war-aim by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which turned it into a war on slavery.

After that, Britain could not intervene on the Confederate side without looking pro-slavery -and the British public would never have agreed to send troops for that purpose.

Lincoln acted just in time. The British Parliament was close to granting recognition when it was closing down for its summer recess, and all the news was of Robert E.Lee's dazzling string of victories.

When Parliamant reassembled, the news of Lee's defeat at Antietam was just coming in, and they decided to wait a bit longer. The unexpected Northern victory gave Lincoln the credibility to make his dramatic announcement without looking as though it was a desperate measure.

It ruled that Dred Scott who was a freed slaved was no more than property and that no slave has any rights.

Raphael had been with the US Navy for 30 years. He joined the Confederate Navy and as commander of the CSS Sumter, he captured or burned 18 Union ships. He then found himself in Liverpool, England, and commanded the newly acquired CSS Alabama. He made a connection with Confederate merchantmen in the Azores and armed the Alabama. Over the next two years Semmes ran rabid over Union shipping. He captured or burned 65 Union vessels said to be worth almost $7 million. The CSS Alabama was finally sunk by an old Union Navy comrade, Captain John Winslow and his USS Keararge.

President Jefferson Davis lacked a general in chief and a strong headquarters staff. For that reason he decentralized the Southern military forces into four regions.With that said, the lack of a general in chief was due to Davis' own decision. The Confederate Congress had authorized him to appoint one, instead he took on that role himself. This was an error and not corrected until January of 1865, when he named Robert E. Lee to that position. Too late and too little.

The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.

General Stand Watie is the Cherokee leader, who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate army.

During the US Civil War there were significant numbers of people not living in the Confederacy, to sympathize with the Southern cause. Prospective people that fit into this group were slave owners and regular citizens in the so-called "Border States" that not only hoped for Southern independence, but actively supported Confederate guerrillas when they raided the North. They gave them supplies and information about Union troops movements.To put this situation in a better perspective, President Lincoln was so concerned about Confederate sympathizers in Maryland that Union troops and artillery were threatened against any groups of pro-Southern people early in 1861.

The first plans to secure the Confederacy had two major defects. President Jefferson Davis supported the idea of placing troops on the perimeter of the Confederate borders. This left the South weak almost everywhere as the South simply did not have enough troops to effectively defend the entire all of the South's borders. Davis made an additional error by establishing what can be termed a departmental system. The purpose of this was to create self supporting areas to carry out the defense of the South. This policy created a situation whereby the effective coordination of Confederate troops was more difficult. With military areas under a sort of separate responsibilities, this caused confusion.

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President Lincoln believed punishing the south would serve no useful purpose and would only delay healing the torn nation. This was in contrast to the radical wing of the Republican Party.

The first action was capturing Fort Sumter from the Union army.

They fired on the Union garrison in Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, because they declared it was Confederate territory.

The port at Wilmington, North Carolina had significant value to the Confederates. After the Union's capture of Norfolk in 1862, Wilmington was the last major Southern port on the Atlantic coast. It was a supply source fro both Richmond and the Army of Northern Virginia.

The advantages that the Confederacy would have gained if the Border states had seceded would have changed the US Civil War immensely. Excluding Delaware, the slave Border states of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland would have added 45% to the white population and military manpower the South. The South's industrial base would have increased by 80%. And, very importantly, Washington DC would have been surrounded by two Confederate states, forcing the abandonment of the Union capitol. Also the use of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers by the Union would have vanished.

The Confederacy's secretary of war in November of 1862 was James Alexander Seddon. He had no military background, he had been successful Richmond lawyer and also served as a congressman in the US and in the Confederate Congress.Jefferson Davis' other candidates for the office, major generals Johnston and Smith did have a strong military background.

When US President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to help end the Southern rebellion, four more Southern states joined the Confederacy. These were the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee. The Confederacy now was composed of eleven states.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Judah P. Benjamin as his first Attorney General. Davis was impressed with Benjamin's hard work and sound advice and thus he was transferred to head the War Department. Since he had disputes with several Confederate generals, Davis moved him over to the State Department. In his role in the State Department, he negotiated a $15 million loan from French bankers. The largest foreign loan the Confederacy obtained during the war.

His influence in the Confederacy was due to the fact that he was Jewish. In the South and in fact the US as well, anti-Semitism was common. At one point even US Grant was accused of the same prejudice.

The last Confederate regiment to surrender was the 1st South Carolina Infantry, also known as the "Hampton Legion." They formally surrendered on June 6, 1865, in the vicinity of Washington, Georgia, after the conclusion of the Civil War. This surrender occurred more than a month after General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, marking the end of organized Confederate resistance.