Military ranks of the Confederate States

Military ranks of the Confederate States was a ranking system devised in 1861 for use within the military of the Confederate States. == Confederate States Army == === Officers === At the beginning of the Civil War, the ranks and rank insignias for the fledgling Confederate States Army had to be developed while the volunteer forces of the individual states that formed the Confederacy made up their own ranks and insignias.

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