The Southern Army was an operational–strategic formation of the White Guards troops on the Don in the summer and autumn of 1918 during the Civil War.

[1] The organization of the army began in the summer of 1918 in Kiev, the capital of the Ukrainian State, by the “Nasha Rodina", or "Our Motherland”, union headed by the Colonel of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment Duke Georgy of Leuchtenberg and attorney at law Mikhail Akatsatov.

[3] The formation of the army was financed by the Don Ataman and the treasury of the German occupation forces in Ukraine.

[4][2] By the time of the termination of German funding by the fall of 1918, the army consisted of about 3,5 thousand bayonets and sabers.

[4] After the death of General Nikolai Ivanov, commander of the army, on January 27, 1919, from typhus, in February–March 1919, most of the forces of the Special Southern Army were reorganized and included in the 6th Infantry Division and other units of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia, General Anton Denikin.