The Puritans were a gathering of English Reformed Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth hundreds of years who tried to "purge" the Church of England from its "Catholic" works on, keeping up that the Church of England was just incompletely transformed. The fundamental part of the Puritans is to make a perfect religious society.
The Confederacy didn't want to use African Americans and other slaves as soldiers because it feared rebellion.
So they resorted to using only their people, the natives so as to avoid any needless confrontations.
Mesopotamia, which is basically the upper Middle East now
A policy of appeasement, or giving in to the demands of the aggressor in order to keep the peace, was followed by France and Britain. Both countries followed the policy since they were not ready to take in another war in the 1930s.