Noun
a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
Source: WordNetDefending slavery deprived the Confederate soldier to the same claim to nobility, but not to tragedy. Allen C. Guelzo
By 1920, virtually no one in the South, black or white, could miss seeing a veterans’ parade, or a statue of a Confederate soldier leaning on his musket with sweet innocence and regional pride. Source: Internet