Confederate Government Civil War units explained

This is a list of Confederate government Civil War military units, not raised by any state.^[1]

Infantry

1st Confederate Infantry (1st Confederate Regiment, Georgia Volunteers)
2nd Confederate Infantry
3rd Confederate Infantry (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, and additional Tennessee units)^[2]
4th Confederate Infantry (1st Regiment, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi Infantry)
9th Confederate Infantry (5th Confederate Infantry; 5th Confederate Regiment, Tennessee Infantry)
23rd Confederate Infantry (Alabama Volunteers)
Bailey's Consolidated Regiment of Infantry
Tucker's Confederate Regiment (also known as "1st Foreign Battalion"; "1st Foreign Legion":former Union prisoners of war)
1st Battalion, Confederate Infantry (Forney's Regiment)
8th Confederate Battalion (also known as "2nd Foreign Battalion"; "2nd Foreign Legion": former Union POWs)
Brooks' Battalion, Confederate Regular Infantry (also known as "Brooks Foreign Battalion": former Union POWs)
Haskell's Company, Infantry

1st Confederate Cavalry
1st Confederate Regular Cavalry
3rd Confederate Cavalry
7th Confederate Cavalry (Claiborne's Regiment, Partisan Rangers; 7th Regiment, Confederate Partisan Rangers)
8th (Dearing's) Confederate Cavalry
8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2nd Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry)
10th Confederate Cavalry
14th Confederate Cavalry
15th Confederate Cavalry (1st Regiment, Alabama and Florida Cavalry)
16th Confederate Cavalry (12th Regiment Mississippi Cavalry, Armistead's Cavalry, Spence's Cavalry)
20th Confederate Cavalry (Lay's Regiment, Confederate Cavalry)
Powers' Regiment, Confederate Cavalry
Wood's Regiment, Confederate Cavalry
1st Battalion, Trans-Mississippi Confederate Cavalry (1st Battalion, Arkansas and Louisiana Cavalry)
6th Battalion, Confederate Cavalry
7th Battalion, Confederate Cavalry (Prentice's Battalion, Confederate Cavalry)
Baxter's Battalion, Confederate Cavalry
Cutshaw's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
Clarkson's Battalion, Confederate Cavalry, Independent Rangers
Murchison's Battalion, Cavalry
Raum's Company, Confederate Cavalry (Warren Dragoons)

1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles (1st Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles)
1st Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (Watie's Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers; 2nd Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Arkansas; 1st Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
Cherokee Regiment (Special Service)
1st Squadron, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (Holt's Squadron, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers)
2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (2nd Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
1st Chickasaw Infantry (Hunter's Regiment, Indian Volunteers)
Shecoe's Chickasaw Battalion, Mounted Volunteers
1st Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles
1st Choctaw Mounted Rifles
Deneale's Regiment, Choctaw Warriors (Deneale's Confederate Volunteers)
Wilkins' (Captain) Company, Choctaw Infantry
1st Creek Mounted Volunteers (1st Regiment, Creek Mounted Rifles or Riflemen; Creek Regiment, Mounted Indian Volunteers; 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Creeks)
2nd Creek Mounted Volunteers
1st Osage Battalion, C.S.A.
1st Seminole Mounted Volunteers
Washington's Squadron of Indians, C.S.A. (Reserve Squadron of Cavalry)

Braxton's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Battalion C, 2d Corps, Army of Northern Virginia)
Cunningham's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
Courtney's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
Haskell's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
Huger's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
Lewis' Battalion, Confederate Artillery
Martin's Battalion, Confederate Reserve Artillery
McLaughlin's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
McIntosh's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Battalion C,
Nelson's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (31st Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery; 3rd Battalion Reserve, Light Artillery)
Page's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Carter's Battalion of Artillery; Braxton's Battalion of Artillery)
Palmer's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Robertson's Battalion of Artillery)
Poague's Battalion, Artillery

1st Regular Battery, Confederate Light Artillery (Semmes' Battery; Barnes' Battery)
Davis' Company, Confederate Light Artillery
Dent's Battery, Confederate Light Artillery
Richardson's Battalion, Confederate Light Artillery (Battalion A. 1st Corps Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia)
Stark's Battalion, Confederate Light Artillery (Battalion B. 1st Corps Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia)
Cobb's Battery 1st Kentucky Light Artillery (1st Kentucky Orphans Brigade, Army of Tennessee)

De Gournay's Battalion, Heavy Artillery (12th Battalion, Louisiana Heavy Artillery)
Montague's Battalion, Confederate Heavy Artillery (4th Battalion, Confederate Heavy Artillery)
Smith's Battalion, Confederate Heavy Artillery

Bands, C.S.A.
Bell's Battalion, C.S.A.
Brush Battalion, C.S.A.^[3]
Burrough's Battalion, Partisan Rangers (Princess Anne Partisan Rangers)
Click's Company, Ordnance Scouts and Guards, C.S.A.
Confederate Infantry
Cunningham's Ordnance Detachment (Cuyler's Ordnance Detachment)
Davis' Company of Guides, C.S.A.
Engineers, C.S.A.
Exchanged Battalion, C.S.A. (Trans-Mississippi Battalion; Western Battalion)
Gillum's Regiment (Henry Gillum's Regiment; Gillum's Regiment, Mounted Infantry; Gillum's Regiment, Mounted Riflemen)
Infantry School of Practice
Invalid Corps
Jackson's Company, C.S.A.
Lyon's Escort, Forrest's Cavalry, C.S.A.
Madison's Company, Mounted Spies and Guides (Phillips' Mtd. Spies and Guides)
Martin's Escort, C.S.A.
McDaniel's (Captain) Company, Secret Service
Mead's Confederate Cavalry (Mead's Regiment of Partisan Rangers)
Miscellaneous Indian Records
Nitre and Mining Bureau, War Department, C.S.A.,
Ochiltree's Detachment of Recruits (Detachment of Regulars)
President's Guard, C.S.A.
Reserve Corps Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia)
Sappers and Miners
Signal Corps, C.S.A.
Stirman's Regiment, Sharp Shooters
Young's (5th) Company, Retributors

Blake's Scouts, C.S.A.
Bradford's Corps, Scouts and Guards (Bradford's Battalion)
Forrest's Scouts, C.S.A.
Fort's Scouts, C.S.A.
Lillard's Company, Independent Scouts and Rangers (Nelson Rangers and Scouts)
Wheeler's Scouts, C.S.A. (Hawkins' Scouts, C.S.A.; Carter's Scouts, C.S.A.; 1st Tennessee Mounted Scouts)

Book: Phillips . Geraldine N. . Compiled Records Showing Service of Military Units in Confederate Organizations . 1973 . United States. National Archives and Records Service . 48 . en.
Book: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies; Series 1 - Volume 52 (Part II). United States. War Dept.. 262. 1898. 16 July 2017.
Pickering, David, and Judy Falls. 2000. Brush Men and Vigilantes, Civil War Dissent in Texas. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M Press.