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Marker for Douglas the camel in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi Old Douglas and Civil War reenactors of the 43rd Mississippi Infantry in 2016. Douglas The Camel, or “Old Douglas,” was a domesticated camel used by Company A of the 43rd Mississippi Infantry, part of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
The 3rd United States Colored Cavalry was a regiment in the United States Army organized as one of the units of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War. The regiment was originally formed in October 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi as the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (African Descent). The unit soon began taking part in ...
The Co. B, 19th Tennessee Infantry Reenactors Honor Guard at the dedication ceremony for a new gravemarker for 1st Lieutenant Robert J. Tipton of the Old Co. B, 19th Tennessee Infantry. A group of Civil War reenactors from Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia represents Company B (Washington County) of the 19th Tennessee Infantry. The ...
The unit also suffered heavy casualties in a May 22, 1863, charge during the initial phase of the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. [ 2 ] Following a discharge at Springfield, Illinois , in October 1864 there was subsequent reorganization, with the reorganized unit seeing duty in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. [ 2 ]
More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.
The 114th Illinois Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Formed in September 1862, the regiment served in Ulysses S. Grant's Central Mississippi campaign, in the Vicksburg campaign, at Brices Cross Roads, at Tupelo, in the 1864 Missouri campaign, at Nashville, and at Spanish Fort.
The 32nd Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War ... to Vicksburg, Miss., 20–26 January 1864 ...
The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...