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Tag Archives: U.S. Regulars
Civil War Echoes: The Battle of Okinawa
Today 74 years ago Operation Iceberg, the invasion of Okinawa, got underway as the first of 183,000 soldiers and Marines of U.S. Tenth Army swarmed ashore at Hagushi on the island’s west coast. It was the largest amphibious operation of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Ties to the War, Trans-Mississippi
Tagged 17th Infantry, Army of the Potomac, Franklin Buchanan, Jacob Zeilin, Japan, Japanese Army, Marine Corps, Matthew Perry, New York, Okinawa, Pacific War, Romeyn B. Ayres, Sykes' Regular Division, Sykes' U.S. Regulars, U.S. Regulars, United States Regulars, World War II
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The Origins of Fortress Washington
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Steve T. Phan By 1865, Washington D.C. was surrounded. On the high hills, long ridges, and flat plateaus that encircled the capital of the United States was an elaborate system of fortifications. Now, as … Continue reading
Reward for Service
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Jim Taub Firing had been growing in intensity all along the line. The skirmishers of Governeur Warren’s V Corps were hotly engaged with Richard Ewell’s Confederates. The Army of the Potomac … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged 140th New York, 146th New York, 155th Pennsylvania, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of the Wilderness, George Steuart, Governeur Warren, Little Round Top, Robert E. Lee, Saunders Field, U.S. Regulars, zouaves
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Building Ohio’s Army
Today we are pleased to welcome guest author Gordy Morgan As the Federal government began mobilizing for civil war, Ohio was neither sufficiently organized nor adequately equipped to help fight it. But it more than made up for these deficiencies … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Civil War Events, Civilian, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 19th Ohio Volunteer Militia, 1st Ohio Infantry, 23rd Ohio Infantry, 24th Ohio Infantry, 25th Ohio Infantry, 26th Ohio Infantry, 2nd Ohio Infantry, 7th Ohio Infantry, Abraham Lincoln, C.P. Buckingham, Camp Chase, Camp Dennison, Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumter, James Nash, U.S. Regulars, Union Guards, William McKinley
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