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Eicher, John H., & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. National Archives, Guide to Federal Records; Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920 (Record Group 393), 1817-1940 (bulk 1817-1920)
During World War II, the Women's Army Corps (WAC) formed female military bands to perform for departing and arriving troops, on training bases in the U.S., and as part of war bond drives, including the 404th Armed Service Forces Band, the only all-Black all-female band in U.S. military history. [14] During World War II, the US Army Air Forces ...
XIII Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.It was first led by Ulysses S. Grant and later by John A. McClernand and Edward O.C. Ord.It served in the Western Theater of civil war, Trans-Mississippi Theater and along the Gulf of Mexico.
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.
The remaining division which did not join Sherman's Atlanta Campaign were left to guard the Mississippi River valley. Kimball's, Lauman's and William Sooy Smith's divisions were permanently removed to other corps while James Tuttle's division of the XV Corps and Andrew Jackson Smith's division of the XIII Corps were both transferred to the XVI Corps.
At the Battle of Gaines' Mill in the Seven Days Battles, Slocum's Division was sent to the support of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter and became hotly engaged, losing 2,021 men out of less than 8,000 present. The Vermont brigade of Smith's (2nd) Division took a prominent part in the fight at Savage's Station, the 5th Vermont losing 209 men in that ...
Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807167526. Earl J. Hess (2020). Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807174470. P. D. Jamieson (2004). Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899. University of Alabama Press.
The 9th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that was a part of the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] The members of the regiment were primarily of German descent and the unit was the first almost all-German unit to enter the Union Army. [2]