Confederate Army
Noun
Meaning
the southern army during the American Civil War
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After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, angry city residents flocked to the building, which held 800 Confederate army officers, and threatened to burn the structure.
The ringleader, William Collins, is a Confederate army captain who plans to turn the money from the robbery over to the Confederacy.
Used first as Jackson’s forces charged in the Battle of Bull Run, this otherworldly battle cry caught on and was used in charges throughout the Confederate Army.
Georgian units in the Confederate army were primarily stationed in Virginia.
“Stingray Point Contraband” (Middlesex Co), which tells of six enslaved men who fled potential impressment into the Confederate army during the Civil War.