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A Military History Of The Confederate States Of America
Volume 1: 1861-1900
The Confederate States of America has a long history of war. From it’s founding in 1861 to present, the CSA has waged war in many different parts of the globe. Some of it has been for expanding it’s country’s boundaires, others, it has defended itself from attacks led by those who wish to destroy it. Just like the United States, it had to fight for its independence from being ruled by a foreign power ( in this case, the US). But also like the US, it came close to loosing the fight for independence. Through this early struggle the CSA was forged in fire and blood. Men who fought for the Confederacy became heroes in their own right. Just as George Washington was deemed “the father of his country” by the USA, Robert E. Lee was deemed the same in the CSA. Men like Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Pat Cleburne, and others rose to the top rank in the military and left their mark on the CSA. The CSA relied on its army and navy to protect it from those who wish to impose their will on the CSA. Their were many who thought that the confederacy would not last 10 years before they came running back to the USA or collapsed on itself. But as the years came and went, the CSA continued to awe and inspire those other countries who wished they were like the confederacy. The CSA would be the first to enlist African Americans into the army to fight for their country just as the white man would. They also would be the first to intergrate them into existing regiments(there was no segregate units) and these black men fought just as hard for their country as their white counterparts did. When it came to weapons, the Confederacy was always eager to adopte and used new wepaons like the breech-loading rifles, the machine gun, the land mine (which oddly enough, they claimed that it was their invention in the first place), and others.