- Researching the 1st Virginia Cavalry, CSA - American Civil War Forums
I am new to these discussions or posting a thread, I am really interested in the 1st Virginia Cavaly, and 1st 2nd Cavalry of Maryland (US) I would any god references to books or other information that could help me put together a document of these units, I have insterest in these units as I
- Gone to Virginny- A Brief Look at the Unique Service of the First . . .
Seems that when studying Kentucky Confederate units, the great majority of focus is on the Orphan Brigade and Morgan's Cavalry The story of the First Kentucky Infantry is not so well- known A very unique regiment, as it is the only Kentucky regiment to serve in what would become the Army of
- 8th Tennessee Infantry (Confederate) | Regimental Histories
Description from Tennessee State Library Archives digital collection: Sgt Jesse Washington Carmack, Co F (formerly D), 8th Tenn Inf Regt , CSA Carmack left Livingston in May 1861 and traveled to Nashville with his regiment He was present at the battles of Corinth, Miss [the siege], Perryville, Ky , Murfreesboro, Tenn , Chickamauga, Geo , Franklin and Nashville, Tenn He deserted on
- 3rd Alabama Infantry | Regimental Histories
Don Troiani's depiction of a member of Company A, Mobile Cadets, ca 1862 This was the early war state issue uniform of the 3rd Alabama Infantry Notice the brass letters MC on the cap "For the young men of the Mobile Cadets, the heady excitement of the first months of 1861 must then have seemed like a dream come true Here at last was the opportunity to make the fantasies of military glory
- Company E, 12th Virginia Cavalry, CSA. | My Civil War Ancestry
Hello, I am interested in any information on Company E, 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, CSA, 1862-65 I have lots of information already, and have been updating (and a little correcting) Mr Frye's 1988 biographical roster I've read all the various narrative histories of the 12th by Frye
- Fate of the CSS Texas | Naval War - At Sea Along Inland Waterways
The CSA was never able to take possession of the warship, and it wound up being purchased by the Peruvian government, which christened her the America they had also purchased CSS Georgia, which became the Union Both ships took part in the Battle of Abtao (Feb 7, 1866) in which the combined Peruvian Chilean flotilla defeated a Spanish squadron
- 65th Georgia Volunteer Infantry | Regimental Histories
65th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA actions in East Tennessee from May 1862 through the Battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, as recorded in the Official Records: Date Commander 65th GVI Activities and Movements 1-May-62 Col Sumner J Smith Formed as Smith's Legion Ga Vol 1-May-62 LtCol JS Fain Loudon, TN, Fain's Battalion
- Major James Breathed of Stuarts Horse Artillery, CSA
"We laid him to rest in the cold, narrow bed And gazed on the marble we placed o'er his head As the proudest of tributes our hearts could pay: 'He never disgraced the dear jacket of gray ' - Breathed tribute by Henry Mathews a veteran of Breathed's Battery I first learned of James Breathed a
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