Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Confederate Morse Carbine: Centerfire Cartridges Ahead of Their Time" video.

The state militias were the regulars. As in nearly all Confederate units were part of state militias. Robert Lee's Army of Virginia is often erroneously equated with the Confederate Army but he just had a number of units that Jefferson Davis managed to get on loan from other states to send to the front. Yes, this was exactly as chaotic a command as it sounds.
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@richardjames1812 Yeah, the mayhem was repeated on a state level in many areas. The thing was the organization of the forces dated back to the revolutionary war period when state and Federal government were tiny and thinly spread out and local militias did basically anything they wanted.
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