1st (Union) Volunteer Brigade

"We fight to defend freedom! Those back home call us traitors for serving the Confederacy, but one man's traitor is another man's freedom fighter! We are not afraid to turn our backs on the old Union, which has become corrupt and oppressive, in order to have for what is right. God is on the side of the Confederacy!"

- Brigadier MacCorwen

The 1st (Union) Volunteer Brigade was the first, and largest, unit comprised of Union citizens in service to the Confederate States of Earth.

The 1st UVB, as it was sometimes known in short-hand, was founded by a man named Thomas MacCorwen, a former officer in the Union Army, who defected to the Confederacy along with most of his unit, pledging their service to the Confederate Army and calling for more Union citizens to serve the Confederacy, which led to the creation of the Union Volunteer Army, made up of the 1st and 2nd (Union) Volunteer Brigades.

The 1st fought in the First Battle of Earth against the invading Union and Galactic Republic forces, they were called traitors by the Union for serving the Confederacy, which Brigadier MacCorwen dismissed by stating that what one party considered a traitor was considered a freedom fighter by another.