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The Battle of Wilmington closed the last major port of the Confederate States on the Atlantic coast.
In May 1865, Cotton Plant was surrendered to Union officials near Halifax, North Carolina by parties claiming that she had been appropriated by Confederate authorities.
She was attached to the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Army, until captured by the Confederates at nearby Aquia Creek, Virginia in May 1861, when she became a part of the Virginia State Navy.
The Gorgas machine gun (or sometimes just a Gorgas gun) was a manually cranked prototype machine gun, the creation of Confederate States General Josiah Gorgas.
During his command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which he commanded from its inception to September 1862, he led his fleet off North Carolina, where in cooperation with troops under General Ambrose Burnside, he captured Roanoke Island and destroyed a small Confederate fleet.
Stovepipe Johnson (Adam Rankin Johnson, 1834–1922), Brigadier general of the Confederate States of America
Allen Thomas (1830–1907), Confederate States Army brigadier general
Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), United States Army officer, Texas Army general, and Confederate States general
In 1861, Campbell entered the Confederate States Army in the rank of colonel of the 33rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, serving in the army of General Leonidas Polk in Columbus, Kentucky.
Alfred E. Jackson (1807–1889), Confederate States Army brigadier general, American Civil War
Army of Mississippi, also known as Army of the West, Confederate States army during the American Civil War
Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr. (1824–1861), career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War
Benjamin Franklin Bradley (1825–1897), politician in the Confederate States of America
Clement Claiborne Clay (1816–1882), son of Clement Comer Clay; U.S. Senator from Alabama 1853–1861, and Confederate States senator from Alabama 1861–1863
In the final episode of the series, set during Reconstruction, a former Confederate States Senator named Arthur Johnson (played by Burl Ives) arrives in the local county to begin several business ventures including buying up all available land and keeping the black population from leaving through heavy interest on sharecropping supplies.
Even as Farragut was moving his ships across the bar, President Davis and Navy Secretary Mallory were promising Flag Officer George N. Hollins, commanding the Confederate States Navy forces on the Mississippi, that Louisiana would be sent up to Memphis as soon as she could be finished (expected to be within days), and Mississippi would follow shortly thereafter.
William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina and Confederate States of America politician and lawyer
Francis Strother Lyon (1800–1882), American and Confederate States politician
Francis Marion Walker (1827–1864), Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War
Martin Witherspoon Gary (1831–1881), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and Democratic politician
Braxton Bragg (1817-1876), General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
William T. Glassell (1831–1879), officer in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War
Quarles served in the Confederate States Army during the civil war as a Private.
Henry Harrison Walker (1832-1912), Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War
Henry Hotze (1833–1887), Swiss-born propagandist for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
The Ironclad Board was an advisory board established by the United States in 1861 in response to the construction of the CSS Virginia by the Confederate States.
James Phelan, Sr. (1821–1873), Confederate States of America politician
James Hervey Witherspoon, Jr., (1810 – 1865), Confederate States of America politician
John C. C. Sanders (1840–1864), Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army
Jonathan H. Carter (died 1887), North Carolina-born planter, sailor, and Confederate States of America gunboat builder
Robert Latane Montague (1829–1880), Virginia politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War
Laurence S. Baker (1830–1907), officer in the Confederate States Army
Each year, Shenfield's essay on Confederate postal usage and routes is included in the introduction to Confederate States stamps in the Scott catalogue.
Robert Clayton Maffett (1836–1865), officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
One of the mandates of Reconstruction placed on the former Confederate states was that each had to write a new constitution acceptable to Congress before rejoining the Union.
Lawrence L. Shenfield, author of Confederate States of America: The Special Postal Routes (1961)
Richard Wilde Walker (1823–1874), Confederate States of America politician
On the back of the medal is the motto of the Confederate States of America, "Deo Vindice" (With God As Our Vindicator), the dates 1861 1865, and the inscription, "From the UDC to the UCV." (UDC stands for the United Daughters of the Confederacy; UCV stands for the United Confederate Veterans.) The Southern Cross of Honor could only be bestowed through the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
David E. Twiggs (1790–1862), US soldier during the War of 1812 and Mexican War, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
William Simpson Oldham, Sr. (1813–1868), politician in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
With the onset of the American Civil War, the Confederate States began buying British arms in quantity and Tranter's high-quality weapons were much esteemed.