They lost the war. Never the less there is great heroism in any war, on both sides.
Any records of Confederate medals issued? Any Medal Of Honor winners? Silver Stars?
Stonewall Jackson may have won some medals. I’m not sure. He’s one of the South’s greatest Generals. Killed just after a successful battle by a nervous sentry.
You mean medals issued by the United States?
Why on Earth would the United States give medals to soldiers who were killing American soldiers?
they were all American soldiers.
I think that both officially and unofficially Southern troops were considered traitors.
The Confederacy would have issued medals. Not the US gov. Two different entities with separate Presidents and governing bodies.
I’m not sure if they did. Because the war got pretty intense very quickly and there may not have been time for any recognition of the troops and the sacrifices that were made.
In Ken Burn’s excellent series on the Civil War, IIRC, it was stated that the COA never “believed in” medals or other award for individual soldiers - that all of them were “heroes” and singling out one would harm morale (which is about all they had going for them).
And, if we have a born-and-raised-in-US adult wondering if the USA would award military honors on men it considered treasonous, there is really something wrong in at least one education.
Taking arms against your country may get you many things - military honors are NOT on the list.
(except, of course you win the fight).
Full article here: Error Leads To Confederate General Accidentally Receiving Medal Of Honor
You do realize you cited a satirical website, right? 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama is reportedly furious with both the White House staff and the Pentagon after a paperwork error led him to accidentally award the Medal of Honor to a deceased Confederate general.
LOL!!!
Aren’t all of the Confederate generals deceased by now?
That blog appears to be the only source reporting that story. Everyone else reports that Alonzo Cushing received the MOH as planned. It was not without controversy, but does not seem to have happened as that blogger reports it.
Duffle Blog is a military satire site. But as a serious answer, the Confederacy never really got around to making medals or decorations for its soldiers. There were only two Confederate military medals; the Davis Guard Medal, made by the city of Houston, and awarded to the members of the Davis Guard, a Houston militia that won the Second Battle of Sabine Pass and kept the US army out of Texas, and the New Market Cross of Honor, awarded to cadets at VMI for their participation in the battle of New Market.
An estimated 620,000 men died in the US Civil War. The largest number of casualties of any war fought by the US. This was not a random group of traitors. There was gallantry and heroism on both sides. It was a horrific self inflicted wound that took decades to recover from.
The war was fought over a fundamental issue of states rights. Specifically the right to withdraw from a union each of the original colonies had voluntarily joined. The issue still comes up in other countries today. Scotland just had a referendum to withdraw from the UK. Quebec similarly had referendums to withdraw from Canada. The Quebec sovereignty movement is still quite active.
The desire for independence and separation from a larger governing power does not make a region traitorous.
The Duffel Blog is one of the best humor/satire sites out there. Of course it has a narrow focus due to being run by and written by former and current military personnel. They rarely miss their mark. With the column cited target of the satire is buried in the body.
D’oh! :smack:
True. But on the other hand they namedArmy posts after rebel generals.
And at least two missile submarines.USS Robert E Lee (SSBN 601)
And USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN 632).
And three surface ships after a Confederate Admiral..
So its not as stupid as it sounds.
This again. The word you’re assiduously avoiding is “slavery”. That’s the “right” those states wanted. It’s extremely well-documented.
Secession was the reaction to the issue, not the issue itself.
The Union named Fort Bragg to thank him for his ineptitude.
But acting on that desire by taking up arms is the very definition of treason.
By that reasoning, so is John Walker Lindh, the American who joined the Taliban. He is an American and a soldier, therefore an American soldier.