Confederate States Army against their will when they arrived in Louisiana from overseas. 340-377. Confederate States Army The Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces. On February 28, 1861, the Provisional Confederate Congress established a provisional volunteer army and gave control over military operations and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the newly chosen Confederate president, Jefferson Davis. Davis was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, and colonel of a volunteer regiment during the Mexican–American War. He had also
Cabinet of the Confederate States of America some point during the life of Confederacy"; only Tennessee and Arkansas never had a Confederate cabinet officer. The final meeting of the Confederate cabinet took place in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid the Confederate collapse. Charlotte was the only place where the full Confederate cabinet met after the fall of Richmond. Cabinet of the Confederate States of America The Cabinet of the Confederate States existed from February 18, 1861 to May 10, 1865. The cabinet was largely modeled on the Cabinet of the United States, with its members overseeing a State Department, Treasury Department, War Department, and Post Office Department. However,