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Category Archives: Regiments
Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta – Johnston as Executioner
Last week’s post, about Yankee pickets firing snow bombs at each other, made me laugh. Soldier life, however, was rarely so amusing. From my forthcoming volume on the first part of the Atlanta Campaign, to be published by Savas Beatie, … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Memory, Monuments, Regiments, Western Theater
Tagged Atlanta Campaign, Braxton Bragg, Civil War executions, Desertion, discipline
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An Extraordinary Life: Mohammad Ali Nicholas Sa’id, Polyglot Genius of the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts
The ink was barely dry on Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in January, 1863 when Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew successfully petitioned the War Department to recruit a Black regiment for the Union Army. Andrew’s recruitment team, led by John Mercer Langston … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Immigrants, Reconstruction, Regiments, Slavery
Tagged 54th Massachusetts, 55th Massachusetts
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The 100th Indiana’s Flag
160 years ago this month, the 100th Indiana Volunteers joined Federal service. The regiment (known as the Persimmon Regiment after fall 1862) saw action in the Vicksburg Campaign, the Battles for Chattanooga, and then in all campaigns of the Army … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Campaigns, Regiments, Western Theater
Tagged 100th Indiana, Army of the Tennessee, Grand Review
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Hispanic Americans in the Civil War
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15), I’d like to provide our ECW readers with an overview of the contribution that Hispanic Americans made to the Civil War. Across the nation, Americans and immigrants that could … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Immigrants, Regiments
Tagged 1st California Cavalry Battalion, 23rd Massachusetts, 2nd Florida, 39th New York Regiment, 54th Massachusetts Infantry, 55th Alabama, 6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Admiral David G. Farragut, Battle of the Crater, Captain Michael Usina, Cemetery Ridge, Col. Henry Pleasants, European Brigade, Fort Fisher, Garibaldi Guard, Hispanic Heritage Month, Hispanics, John Ortega, Joseph H. De Castro, Lola Sanchez, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Louisiana Tigers, Luis Emilio, Medal of Honor, Petersburg, Phillip Bazaar, Socorro New Mexico, St. Johns River, USS Santiago de Cuba, USS Saratoga
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A Failure to Organize: Philadelphia’s Board of Trade Rifles
I’m a sucker for a good recruiting poster. Their patriotic images and garish text so often evoke the pomp, pageantry, and enthusiasm on display in the early years of the Civil War. These broadsides can tell us a lot about … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Regiments
Tagged 156th Pennsylvania Infantry, 157th Pennsylvania Infantry, 191st Pennsylvania Infantry, 21st Pennsylvania Infantry, 52nd Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Battle of Cold Harbor, Battle of Petersburg, Bethesda Church, Camp Morton, Charles Ernenwein, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Board of Trade Rifles, recruiting, Robert Patterson, William A. Gray
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The 24th Maine’s colonel excoriates Nathaniel Banks
When the 24th Maine Infantry Regiment officially completed its nine months of military service in July 1863, Col. George Marston Atwood expected to take his weary men home from Port Hudson. Nathaniel Banks apparently squelched the idea, though, and the … Continue reading
The Normal School Company
The 44th New York has a distinctive castle-like monument on Gettysburg’s Little Round Top. Visitors can climb up and get a fine view of that sector, and it is a popular stop. It is visible from many parts of the … Continue reading
“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 2
Find Part One Here The Native Guards on the extreme right of the Union flank at Port Hudson were positioned in front of some of the roughest terrain on the battlefield and ordered to attack the strongest portion of the … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, Sieges, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 33rd Mississippi, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, Black regiment, Black soldiers, civil war memory, Claude Paschal Maistre, Colonel John Nelson, Louisiana Native Guards, Major General Franklin Gardner, Nathaniel Banks, National Emancipation Monument, New Orleans, Port Hudson, St. Louis Cemetery, W.B. Shelby, William Dwight
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The Parade for Gettysburg’s 75th
As another Gettysburg anniversary passes into the background, it is worth recalling that the battlefield’s history did not stop in 1863. I recently noticed something interesting about the 75th anniversary in 1938, specifically about the parade on July 2 by … Continue reading
“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 1
The unit that would be later known as the Louisiana Native Guards found its start, astoundingly, in Confederate Louisiana in May of 1861. Accepted as a militia regiment by Governor Thomas Moore, 33 black officers and 731 privates – all … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 2nd Regiment Native Guards, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, Admiral David G. Farragut, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, civil war memory, Felicie Coulon, Institute Catholique, John W. Phelps, Louisiana Native Guards, Nathaniel Banks, New Orleans, Port Hudson
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