what was considered the confederates
Members of all the Confederate States military forces (the army, the navy, and the marine corps) are often referred to as Confederates, and members of the Confederate army were referred to as Confederate soldiers. Supplementing the Confederate army were the various state militias of the Confederacy:
Home Front Activity. Historians of the Civil War (1861-65) have only recently begun serious study of Unionists, an often overlooked group of white southerners who played a substantial part in sowing discontent and undermining the Confederate war effort. Unionists found themselves living in a new nation, the Confederacy, to which they chose not to give their allegiance.