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  2. France and the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The United States and France: Civil War Diplomacy (1970). Doyle, Don H. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War (Basic Books, 2014). Fry, Joseph A. Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era (University Press of Kentucky, 2019). Hanna, Alfred Jackson, and Kathryn Abbey Hanna.

  3. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

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    Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.

  4. William H. French - Wikipedia

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    William Henry French (January 13, 1815 – May 20, 1881) was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General in the American Civil War.He rose to temporarily command a corps within the Army of the Potomac, but was relieved of active field duty following poor performance by his command during the Mine Run Campaign in late 1863.

  5. General officers in the Confederate States Army - Wikipedia

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    Robert E. Lee, the best known CSA general.Lee is shown with the insignia of a Confederate colonel, which he chose to wear throughout the war. Much of the design of the Confederate States Army was based on the structure and customs of the United States Army [1] when the Confederate States Congress established the Confederate States War Department on February 21, 1861. [2]

  6. Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac - Wikipedia

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    Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac (February 16, 1832 – November 15, 1913) was a French nobleman who served with the Confederates in the American Civil War, living on to become the last surviving Confederate major-general. After service in the French army in the Crimea, Polignac was travelling in America at the outbreak of war ...

  7. List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) - Wikipedia

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    Last survivor of 3 highest grades of general in Confederate States Army. Buford, Abraham: Brigadier general rank: September 2, 1862 nom: November 29, 1862 conf: April 22, 1863 USMA, 1841. Mexican–American War. Resigned as captain, U.S. Army, October 22, 1854. Remained out of war while Kentucky remained neutral. Two cousins were Union Army ...

  8. List of American Civil War generals - Wikipedia

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    The list of American Civil War (Civil War) generals has been divided into five articles: an introduction on this page, a list of Union Army generals, a list of Union brevet generals, a list of Confederate Army generals and a list of prominent acting Confederate States Army generals, which includes officers appointed to duty by E. Kirby Smith, officers whose appointments were never confirmed or ...

  9. Confederate States Army - Wikipedia

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    The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery. [3]