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Officers of the Confederate States Navy used, just like the army, a combination of several rank insignias to indicate their rank. [4] [better source needed] While both hat insignia and sleeve insignia were used here the primary indicator were shoulder straps. Only line officers wore those straps shown below as officers of various staff ...
Officers of the 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment defending the national capital of Washington, D.C., in 1865, the final year of the Civil War. Commissioned officers in the Union army could be divided in several categories: general officers, including lieutenant general, which was added on March 2, 1864, major generals and brigadier ...
Officers' kepis might have black or gold braid to display their rank. Early in the war kepis were supplied with a waterproof cover. Other troops purchased a "havelock" which, like the contemporary Foreign Legion cap had a neck flap to protect the wearer from the sun. The havelock was made of a grayish-blue cotton mesh and was not liked by the ...
The army was reorganized for the Civil War. On July 29, 1861 [6] the ranks of commissary sergeant, saddler sergeant, veterinary sergeant, hospital steward, company quartermaster sergeant and wagoner were added to the cavalry. The ranks of commissary sergeant, drum major and leader of the band and hospital steward were added to the infantry.
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 ...
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]
Sifakis, Stewart, Who Was Who in the Civil War. Facts On File, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. United States War Department, The Military Secretary's Office, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861–1865, (Compiled from Official Records.) 1906.
Confederate Navy during the civil war; Military ranks of the Ottoman Empire; Rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces; Ranks in the Austro-Hungarian Navy; Royal Navy during the 18th and 19th centuries; South Vietnamese military ranks and insignia; United States (Union) Army during the civil war; United States (Union) Navy during the ...