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- 26th Wisconsin Infantry - American Civil War Forums
A carte-de-visite bust portrait photograph of Frederick C Winkler, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, resident who served as an officer with the 26th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (also known as the Sigel Regiment) during the Civil War
- Shenandoah Valley 1864 - The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864: A . . .
The Valley was only lightly defended by only a scratch force of cavalry and a few small infantry brigades, all under the command of former Vice President of the United States and 1860 Presidential candidate, Lt Gen John C Breckinridge In a battle fought in a thunderstorm Breckinridge's men managed to overcome Sigel's poorly-deployed force at the strategically-located town of New Market
- 07 05, July 5th In Civil War History | On This Day
The Union Army was led by Colonel Franz Sigel commanding a force of 1,100 Union army casualties and losses were 44 Small Skirmish near Newport News Virginia was reported Although officially dated July 4th President Lincoln's message was read to Congress on July 5th The message gained approval from the Congress for the most part
- Battle Flags And Those Intrepid Men Who Bore Them
General Tower, being soon after severely wounded, the command devolved on Colonel Coulter, who held his position until overpowered by the masses of the enemy hurled upon him when he was forced to yield; reinforcements arriving from Sigel's Corps, he renewed the engagement, but the weight and impetuosity of the enemy's attack was so overwhelming
- Lincoln - Lincolns politically appointed generals, were they any good . . .
I'll happily cede for discussion's sake that Sigel was hardly a complete greenhorn, but my understanding is the same as Ole's - whether the German immigrants enlisted because they felt confidence in Sigel as a general doesn't mean anything on if he was picked because Lincoln and the government were weighing him on purely military concerns
- Foreign Born Generals in the U. S. Army 1861-65
Osterhaus was the highest-ranking from Prussia Carl Schurz, while technically outranking him with a far senior date of rank, didn´t regularly command a corps And Sigel, being from Baden, was the highest-ranking and most senior German overall Thank you for explaining that! I had hoped that you would chime in and lift the fog!
- How did the 1864 Shenadoah Valley Campaign impact the War?
The repeated attempts through the late spring and summer of 1864 with Sigel, Hunter, and Crook led to Grant concluding it was impossible for the Union to take and hold the Shenandoah Thus destroying it was the only way to deny its resources to the Confederates
- Grant - Did the Confederates underestimate Grant? | Famous People of . . .
Sigel and Butler were integral to Grant's strategy in Virginia and they were always on his mind, but they're rarely on the minds of anyone talking about the campaign and often dismissed as sideshows
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