Army of the Confederacy

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Army of the Confederacy - the southern army during the American Civil War

Confederate Army

army, ground forces, regular army - a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state

gray, grey - any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey"

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Look at the substance, however, and we find nominees at the Justice and Interior departments who could have been vetted by the John Birch Society, if not the Army of the Confederacy. The two warring sides of the Republican psyche were neatly illustrated recently at a dinner sponsored by the Philanthropy Roundtable at the Regency Hotel in New York, where two current stars of the Republican rubber-chicken circuit, Weekly Standard editor David Brooks and American Enterprise Institute "research scholar" and Olin fellow Dinesh D'Souza, held forth after a nicely Republican red-meat repast.