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At the start of the war, the entire United States Army consisted of 16,367 men of all branches, with infantry representing the vast majority of this total. [2] Some of these infantrymen had seen considerable combat experience in the Mexican–American War, as well as in the West in various encounters, including the Utah War and several campaigns against Indians.
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
The following is a list of the units of the United States Regular Army during the American Civil War. ... 1st Infantry Regiment; 2nd Infantry Regiment; 3rd Infantry ...
The infantry regiment was the basic administrative and tactical unit of the Civil War armies. Regimental headquarters consisted of a colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, adjutant, quartermaster, surgeon (with rank of major), two assistant surgeons, a chaplain, sergeant major, quartermaster sergeant, commissary sergeant, hospital steward, and two ...
Civil War Centennial Commission of Tennessee Retrieved 19 July 2014 . Hancock's diary, or, A history of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry: with sketches of First and Seventh Battalions : also, portraits and biographical sketches : two volumes in one (1887) at the Internet Archive
This is a list of North Carolina Confederate Civil War units. The list of North Carolina Union Civil War regiments is shown separately. [1] [2] Group portrait of the 60th North Carolina Infantry Regiment at the home of Lieutenant Colonel James Mitchell Ray for their 1889 reunion.
List of military units raised by the state of Kansas during the American Civil War (1861–1865). ... 14th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment; October 9, 1864 ...
The 1st Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment's soldiers had enlisted for a period of three months after President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer soldiers in April 1861 after the outbreak of the war. The regiment was officially mustered in on May 14 ...