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This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States and the Confederate States (Confederate States Army).
The United States Army, known also as the Regular Army, was a small, scattered constabulary force ill-equipped to fight a major conflict on the eve of the Civil War. Partly this was due to a Jeffersonian ideal which saw a standing army as a threat to democracy and whose elitist, hierarchical structure was in conflict with the concepts of ...
The following is a list of the units of the United States Regular Army during the American Civil War. Infantry. 1st Infantry Regiment; 2nd Infantry Regiment;
Examples of battles with dual names are shown in the table. Civil War armies were also named in a manner reminiscent of the battlefields since Northern armies were frequently named for major rivers (Army of the Potomac, Army of the Tennessee, Army of the Mississippi), and Southern armies for states or geographic regions (Army of Northern ...
List of California Civil War Confederate Units; List of California Civil War Union units; List of California State Militia civil war units; List of Colorado Territory Civil War units; List of United States Colored Troops Civil War units; Confederate Government Civil War units; Confederate units of Indian Territory; List of Connecticut Civil War ...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
During the American Civil War, a department was a geographical command within the Union's military organization, usually reporting directly to the War Department.Many of the Union's departments were named after rivers or other bodies of water, such as the Department of the Potomac and the Department of the Tennessee.
The Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS) was authorized by Act of Congress on February 23, 1861, and began organizing on April 27. The Army of Confederate States was the regular army, organized by Act of Congress on March 6, 1861. [1] It was authorized to include 15,015 men, including 744 officers, but this level was never achieved.