Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
[213] [214] [215] As of 2013, the Army National Guard represents 40% of the US Army's total combat capability. [216] In addition to deployments for the Global War on Terrorism, National Guard members continued in their roles of disaster relief and providing support to law enforcement when required.
George Wood Wingate (July 1, 1840 – March 22, 1928) was an American lawyer, soldier, civil servant and organizer of rifle practice. During the Civil War he served in the New York National Guard which later encouraged him to promote marksmanship skills for American citizens.
The 103rd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army that served in combat in the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. It was an Army National Guard regiment from the states making up New England, but most of its soldiers came from Maine. It was a part of the 26th Infantry Division and the 43rd Infantry ...
4th Regiment New York National Guard Infantry: 5th Regiment New York National Guard Infantry: 6th Regiment New York National Guard Infantry: 7th New York State Militia Regiment "Silk Stocking" 8th New York Militia Infantry Regiment "Washington Grays" 8th Regiment New York National Guard Infantry "Washington Grays" Redesignated from 8th NYSM [1]
Over 35,000 Ohio National Guardsmen were federalized and organized into regiments for 100 days service in May 1864. Shipped to the Eastern Theater, they were designed to be placed in "safe" rear areas to protect railroads and supply points, thereby freeing regular troops for Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s push on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
Sketch from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1863: a Home Guardsman examines "Negro passes" on the levee road below New Orleans.. The Home Guard of the several states of the Confederacy during the American Civil War included all able-bodied white males between the ages of 18 and 50 who were exempt from Confederate service, excepting only the governor and other officials.
The Ohio National Guard ... Guard celebrated the second Freedom to Serve Campaign by sharing the stories of four Black Ohioans who served in the Civil War. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.
Repeals provisions in section 1076 in Pub.L. 109-364 but still enables the President to call up the National Guard of the United States for active federal military service during Congressionally sanctioned national emergency or war. Places the National Guard Bureau directly under the Department of Defense as a joint activity.