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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...
...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.
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...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...
...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...
...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 ...
...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...
...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...
...actions at the Bloody Angle on July 3. It was written by Frederick Fuger, who at the time was a regular army 1stSgt in the 4th US Light Artillery. It seems SGT Fuger has his own very fascinating story...
...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 ...
...t is said that he once received a telegram that told of John Mosby capturing one of his generals and 40 army mules. His reaction was "I hate it about the mules but I can MAKE more generals"!...
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...
...#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...
... 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 ...
...point in history when the minie ball had changed war profoundly, albeit not the mindsets of most of the army commanders....
...back, I think he was a teacher at UIC or something, and he was talking about someone in the Confederate army who was woefully underqualified. Someone who had parents that had high enough stature that...
...OSCIUSZKO - an american revolutionary war hero ( i belive he was the chief engineer for the continental army resposible for many fortifcations )had the highest mountain in australia named after him by...
...his is a fascinating aspect of Civil War.
2:Had war not happened, we would have remained at standing army of 15,000 men and aging wood boats. France and England would have surpassed us in those fie...
...tegy games are in a different class than my shoot 'em wwii game.
Imagine commanding Pope's army at Second Bull Run; could I save the day? Or to be JEB Stuart, controlling my egomania, and...
...e Irish Brigade during the Civil War and was wounded twice during his service. I have his file from the Army and a few other interesting letters from him and articles such as that he was a pallbearer ...
... their home country and defended themselves and their people. I do understand somewhat why Lee took his army North, but it was a desperate move that had to have succeeded. It did not.
As for the bl...
...ince Jefferson Davis died 120 years ago. Otherwise I won't argue the point.
in 1865 the union army and navy were second to none.
Army maybe (at least in numbers) but navy? Hardly:
Great Br...
Haven't posted much the last few days -- first the races at Loudon, then the weather and tides were most conducive to striped bass fishing.
The comments on the CSA problems with artillery fus...
.... I am hoping to find some Civil War re enactment groups who are recreating soldiers in the Confederate Army who might have knowledge of this soldier.Or anyone who might have resources about the soldi...
...the desires of one's deceased spouse.
He was not a traitor to his country at all in leading the Army of Northern Virginia. His country was the Confederate States of America. It was clear back ...
... done very well in Australia,he probably was the type of guy who would have declared war on the British army here,and given them hell.He would have been too extreme for our own Ned Kelly,Kelly only sh...
...gned a cease-fire agreement with Union representatives for his command, the First Indian Brigade of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, becoming the last Confederate general in the field to stand down,...
... types of projectiles known as Williams Patent "cleaner" bullets" were used by the Union Army during the American Civil War in the standard .58 caliber rifle muskets. There was a fourth...
...s against your own countrymen than it would have been to be ruthless against an invading Brit or French army. There is one story, I can't recall what battle, but a Yank is lying on the ground and...
...near thing. There was much rumbling in the rank-and-file of the Union armies, and the McClellan-centric army leadership made no secret of their intense dislike of the Proclamation. But, as we are seei...
... Lincoln was heavy-handed in the early days, but he hardly occupied the state in the sense of a foreign army suppre...
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