What is Confederate States Army?
[[File:John Richard Whitehead CSA.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Photograph of Sgt. John Richard Whitehead, Company G, 6th Virginia Cavalry, CSA}}]] The '''Confederate States Army''' (CSA) was organized in February 1861 to fight for the [[Confederate States of America]] during the [[American Civil War]]. Somewhere between 750,000 and 1.2 [[million]] [[soldiers]] served the Confederacy in one form or another.<ref name=factsNPS>{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/facts.htm |title=Facts |author= |website=The Civil War |publisher=National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior |accessdate=11 July 2016}}</ref> The exact numbers are not known because of [[wikt:incomplete|incomplete]] and [[wikt:destroy|destroy]]ed [[Document|records]].<ref name=factsNPS/> Although it won many [[battle]]s the Confederate Army lost the [[war]]. It could not overcome the [[Union army]]'s larger numbers and better [[wikt:resource|resource]]s.<ref name=FarmerHT>{{cite web |url=http://www.historytoday.com/alan-farmer/why-was-confederacy-defeated |title=Why was the Confederacy Defeated? |author=Alan Farmer |date=September 2005 |website= |publisher=History Today Ltd|accessdate=11 July 2016}}</ref> On April 9, 1865, [[General officer|General]] [[Robert E. Lee]] [[surrender (military)|surrender]]ed what was left of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]] to General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] at [[Appomattox Court House]], [[Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm|title=Surrender at Appomattox, 1865|author= |website= |publisher=EyeWitness to History|accessdate=11 July 2016}}</ref> While his army was only a part of the total Confederate army, his surrender marked the end of the Confederacy.<ref name=FarmerHT/> On June 23, 1865, Georgia's [[Stand Watie]] became the last Confederate general to surrender. == Makeup == Much of the design of the Confederate States Army was based on the structure and customs of the U.S. Army.<ref name=structurTL69NCR>{{cite web |url=http://thomaslegion.net/americancivilwar/ci