Tag Archive | American Civil War
Brother’s of War-The Iron Brigade at Gettysburg.
The Iron Brigade (also known as the Black Hats because they wore the hats of the US Regulars) in the Union Army of the Potomac initially consisted of the 2nd, 6th, 7th Wisconsin Infantry and the 19th Indiana Infantry. Battery B, 4th US Artillery was attached to the brigade. The brigade after severe losses at Antietam was brought […]
U. S. Grant and N. B. Forrest
One of the more disturbing aspects of the woke Cancel Culture is judging people (and history) of the past by contemporary woke social justice standards. This is troubling because as Victor Davis Hansen puts it; Once a cultural revolution gets going, there can be no contextualization of the past, no allowance for human frailty, no […]
The 54th Massachusetts and the Assault on Battery Wagner
Today in American Civil War History the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, a regiment of free blacks assaulted Battery Wagner. Battery Wagner was situated on a small island that guarded the approaches from the sea-side of Charleston SC. The regiment was the lead regiment in Strong’s Brigade and thus would take the bulk of the […]
They Never Came Home: A Story of Three Brothers Who Fought in the Civil War
They Never Came Home: A Story of Three Brothers Who Fought in the Civil War.
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The 26th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a “German” Regiment raised for the Union during the American Civil War. It was nicknamed “The Sigel Regiment” after Franz Sigel himself a German immigrant from Baden. Twelve regiments of Germans were raised in 1862 from areas in the north with heavy German immigrant populations. The 26th Wisconsin was […]
A Brief History of the American_British Alliance
I’m not a particular fan of Twitter. I guess I don’t like counting characters. One of the things I do like is the incredible array of historical pictures one can find there through your follows. This one below popped up in my feed today. The picture symbolizes (to me anyway) the alliance the US and […]
The “2nd German” 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The 2000 census shows that 53% of Wisconsin’s population claims some German ancestry. During the Civil War a number of regiments consisted primarily of soldiers of one nationality. The best example is probably the Irish Brigade consisting of New England Regiments. Because of the huge number of immigrants from German areas of Europe whole regiments […]
Book Review: Valley Thunder by Charles R. Knight
The Battle of New Market, Virginia, May, 1864 was a rather small affair by American Civil War standards. Only about 10,000 men on both sides were involved. Yet, it is one of the most popular, well-known battles of the War Between the States. The reason for this is because of the charge of the VMI […]
Missouri Cavalry in Virginia?
We visited the Battlefield at New Market, VA today. It was not a large battle by Civil War standards, less than ten thousand men engaged between the two sides. I found this story interesting. There was one company of Missouri Cavalry on the Confederate side at New Market. They numbered 62 men and were without […]
History and Hobbies 
Let Them Be
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds. Abraham Lincoln I made a decision sometime ago to separate my interests in history from my interests […]