The Confederate army was never a single thing. It was Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in worn gray and butternut, Hood's Texas Brigade in linen shirtsleeves at Antietam, Stonewall Jackson's foot cavalry marching twenty miles a day in the Shenandoah Valley, JEB Stuart's mounted troopers riding around the Union army, Tennessee veterans of the Army of Tennessee at Stones River and Franklin. This collection brings together 1/30 scale W. Britain figures of the Confederate generals, regimental commanders, color bearers, gun crews, and line infantry who fought from First Manassas in July 1861 to the surrender at Appomattox in April 1865.

The named generals anchor the collection. General Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia from June 1862 through Appomattox. Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, killed by friendly fire at Chancellorsville at the moment of his greatest victory. Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, Lee's "Old War Horse" who held the right at Gettysburg and the line at the Wilderness. Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett, whose division crossed the open ground at Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863. Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the cavalry commander whose absence at Gettysburg cost Lee the eyes of his army. And General P.G.T. Beauregard, who fired the first shells of the war at Fort Sumter.

The regimental clusters fill in the line. The Texas Brigade — Hood's hard-fighting Texans who broke the Union line at Gaines's Mill and met the Iron Brigade in the Cornfield at Antietam — and Col. William C. Oates's 15th Alabama, which went up Little Round Top against the 20th Maine. The 1st Virginia Cavalry, JEB Stuart's first command. The Confederate artillery, working captured Federal guns and homemade Tredegar copies alike. Plus color bearers carrying the Wigfall Pattern, Lone Star, 1st National, and ANV battle flags, drummers and fifers, line infantry in shell jackets and frock coats, and the sets and scenes that build a Confederate diorama.