Post-CW Confederate Army units

OK, in the event of a Confederate victroy, would the new CS regular army have retained fulltime such units with a hard-fighting reputation as the Louisiana Tiger Zouaves, the Stonewall Brigade or the Texas Brigade, or would these units have simply reverted back to their respective states of origin ?
 
I would consider it likely that there would be a small professional army maintained, originally populated by the likes of 'The Stonewall Brigade', etc., but that they eventually become seperated from their originating states. There could be an arrangement where in the eventuality of a national mobilization that militia units from the respective states would first be used to swell the ranks of the 'titled' regiments in the standing army.
 

MacCaulay

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They better have Camelry, that's all I've got to say about it. Jefferson Davis invented the idea, after all.
 
OK, in the event of a Confederate victroy, would the new CS regular army have retained fulltime such units with a hard-fighting reputation as the Louisiana Tiger Zouaves, the Stonewall Brigade or the Texas Brigade, or would these units have simply reverted back to their respective states of origin ?

All volunteer units would have been disbanded at the end of the war, just as they were in the Union Army. The few Confederate regular regiments (incidentally, I had an ancestor who served in one of these...the 7th Confederate States Cavalry)...would have continued to serve after the war, along with whatever new regiments were felt necessary due to the continuing threat from the North.
 
All volunteer units would have been disbanded at the end of the war, just as they were in the Union Army. The few Confederate regular regiments (incidentally, I had an ancestor who served in one of these...the 7th Confederate States Cavalry)...would have continued to serve after the war, along with whatever new regiments were felt necessary due to the continuing threat from the North.

Yeah. They're really going to need to have some sort of army... Or else a Union army is going to be smashing in through Virginia in a few years time. I can definitely see a pretty decently sized standing army (relative to old US standards). But the real core of the Confederate military would be state-based, rather than national.
 
Unlikely. None have been seen alive since the early 1900s.

I guess the population wasn't large enough for them to be able to breed and survive in the Mojave. I wonder what the local Indians thought when they first saw camels?
I believe the armed forces of South Africa and India still have camel corps in service. Of course, there are irregulars still riding camels into battle in some parts of the world, such as the janjaweed reconnaisance troops of Sudan.
 
Unlikely. None have been seen alive since the early 1900s.

I guess the population wasn't large enough for them to be able to breed and survive in the Mojave. I wonder what the local Indians thought when they first saw camels?
I believe the armed forces of South Africa and India still have camel corps in service. Of course, there are irregulars still riding camels into battle in some parts of the world, such as the janjaweed reconnaisance troops of Sudan.
Camel indian cavalry vs. Custer?
 
also, the CSA post-war should retain elite units in some form like Mosby's Partisan Rangers- then you'll still get Texas holding onto its Rangers as part of its Dept of Public Safety...
 
also, the CSA post-war should retain elite units in some form like Mosby's Partisan Rangers- then you'll still get Texas holding onto its Rangers as part of its Dept of Public Safety...

Actually, that would not be the standard American pattern, which the Confederates would certainly follow. Volunteer units, of which Mosby's Rangers was one, are enlisted for the duration of the war, and then disbanded. Now what they could very well do is persuade the officers of such a unit...Mosby, for example...to stay in the military to recruit and train a Ranger Regiment for the Regular Army. But Mosby's Rangers, as such, would be disbanded at war's end.
 
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