Membership is available to all collectors and students of postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States of America.
It current has ten voting members, including the Recording Secretary, and a stable of consultants with expertise in specialty areas.
It was purchased for and donated to the Alliance in 1977 by members John R. Hill Jr. and D. Scott Gallagher.
The official publication of the organization is its awards winning journal the Confederate Philatelist which is published quarterly.
In 1929, August Dietz Sr. published The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America.