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Forum Post Army of Cumbulin?
Army of Cumbulin?
Forum Post I have a grand army of the republic medal...
You can find online information about the GAR organization of union army veterans. That can give you the historical facts. You can look for the medal here: http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.p...
Forum Post in the union army VI CORP during the battle of gettysburg c...
in the union army VI CORP during the battle of gettysburg can anyone inform me as to who commanded the second divisions first brigade and what units made up the brigade ( my list is incomplete
Forum Post Army of the Potomac finds
Last week I was able to visit a old stomping ground near Fredicksburg Va. since I was attending a Marine Corps conference up in Quantico. About ten years ago I was able to get a few three ringers an...
Forum Post Army of the Potomac finds
Last week I was able to visit a old stomping ground near Fredicksburg Va. since I was attending a Marine Corps conference up in Quantico. About ten years ago I was able to get a few three ringers an...
Blog Comment Our Three Equally Important Union Armies
...e of Chattanooga. He was there, but it was Gen. George H. Thomas who actually conducted the battle. His army, the Army of the Cumberland, was the most technologically advanced army in world at the tim...
Forum Post If the Confederacy had won at Gettysburgh...?
...nvasion of kentucky,stoneriver,chickamauga,chattanooga all possible knockout blows how did he do?grants army to the east,why not send men from us army in arkansas,texas coast,new orleans,south carolin...
Forum Post research
Follow up question: Let’s imagine, while the Northern Army marched south through Georgia to the sea…they no doubt were meant with resistance. And like any army, the CSA would have had snipers plac...
Forum Post civil war courts-martial
...039;s hard to imagine the young country would have had time to rethink and rework the process for their army. But I'll check closer in a few of the things I have. As for court-martials for civili...
Forum Post Uniform Pin
Since posting this thread, I have learned that this is a corps badge from the 17th Army Corps of the Dept. of Tennessee. It belonged to my great grandfather, initials W.A.F., who enlisted in the 14/15...
Blog Comment the civil war happened here
... major landing occured overlooked by naval power. I guess in the case of the CW a combination naval and army power in that the Army controlled the gumboats. I have to jump back into my books; I let my...
Forum Post november 23rd
... going to attempt to take back the hills surrounding chattanooga tn where a greatly reduced confederate army commanded by braxton bragg waits,what they have been waiting for doesnt seem clear. general...
Forum Post If you were an escaped slave living in the North, would you ...
If you were an escaped slave living in the North, would you be enthusiastic about joining the army? Why?
Forum Post where they wearing kepis in Greece 1860 that looked like our...
...ed on the French version (even the word is French, meaning "small cap" ) so why not the Greek army? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepi Always wondered why the dang impractical things b...
Forum Post It is said that Lincoln very rarely left Washington during t...
It is said that Lincoln very rarely left Washington during the war except to visit the army. Does anyone know if he travel with Seward to upstate New York in 1863?
Forum Post I need some help please. I heard a story about a number of b...
...a number of brothers (4, 5, 6?) all from the same family, all who died in the same action, leading the army to prohibit siblings from serving in the same unit. Ca anyone fill in the details? Thanks f...
Forum Post I just read that in the civil war there were Belgian soldier...
...around 200,000 Irish 300,000 Germans, 50,000 English/Scots and probably 50,000 Canadians in the Federal Army (and I am talking about foreign born men not just their ethnicity. ) Many of these were act...
Forum Post i have acquired a u.s. model springfield 1884 serial number ...
...h to load a cartridge came about as follows: By the end of the American Civil War, the United States Army recognized the need to obtain a breech-loading rifle for its use. However, with the end of ...
Forum Post Tactical Improvements As War Progressed
herman haupt and the railroad,the engineers and the men under them .the telegraph.the union army by 1865 could have gone anywhere in the world and kicked butt and the union navy could have done the sa...
Forum Post Hi All
...bout yerself. Me, Im here doing genealogy related work. Just found out my gggrandpa was in the union army, looking to track down the where what when and hows of his service. Great Site....
Forum Post G'Day from Australia
...actor group in Oz called the Shenandoah's Crew - Australia I also have an interest in the union army specifically the coloured regiments, this came about after I came into possession of a must...
Forum Post Does anyone know where I could find information on Confedera...
...d find information on Confederate soldiers taking their personal servants (aka slaves) with them in the army? I see references occasionally to this. I have even seen a reference to the servants scou...
Forum Post Jacob Cox
...he effect that very few have the capacity to command a division, even fewer a corps, and almost none an army. This seems obvious, but a lot of people seem to have trouble with the idea, and it is one ...
Forum Post john brown is 59 years old on may 9th 1859 the past nine yea...
...erves to make him get the mission accomplished-here in kansas he will meet some of the men who join his army he has become famous by now.a raid into missouri results in the murder of a plantation owne...
Forum Post Looking for Civil War antiques collection for History Channel shoot
... collection of civil war antiques to be filmed as part of a short video. Specifically looking for Union Army artifacts and these would include: swords, guns, flags, etc. We would come to you with out ...
Forum Post november 24th
1863-today joe hooker once head of the union army of the potomac in the east,looked to redeem his reputation tarnished at the battle of chancellorsville in may 1863. three days before the battle of ge...
Forum Post I was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia so here are my...
...#039;d be assigned to? I did some research and found that the 1st VA infantry fought primarily for the Army of northern VA, would this unit apply to me? 2. How did individuals becomed assigned to di...
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