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The 2nd United States Sharpshooters was a sharpshooter regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. From 1861 to January 1863 they were members of the " First Iron Brigade " also known as the "Iron Brigade of the East".
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... 2nd United States Sharpshooters; 2nd Brigade Col Thomas R. Tannatt 4th Maine; 17th Maine [12]
2nd Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion; 16th South Carolina: Maj B. Burgh Smith; 24th South Carolina: Col Ellison Capers (w), Cpt William C. Griffith; Maney's Brigade BG John C. Carter (mw) Col Hume R. Field 1st-27th Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field; 4th (34th) Tennessee (provisional) 6th-9th Tennessee; 8th Tennessee; 16th Tennessee; 28th Tennessee ...
The 2nd Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters was a company of sharpshooters that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was also known as the 2nd Andrew's Sharpshooters after the governor of Massachusetts , John Albion Andrew .
15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj A. T. Hawkins, Cpt Daniel Coleman; Polk's Brigade BG Lucius E. Polk. 1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt; 3rd-5th Confederate: Col James A. Smith; 2nd Tennessee: Col William D. Robison; 35th Tennessee: Col Benjamin J. Hill; 48th Tennessee: Col George H. Nixon; Deshler's Brigade BG James Deshler
It was the first time in the war that a Confederate cavalry regiment (the 2nd Virginia) had fled in the face of a Union charge. [4] Lee's men advanced with the five regiments in line abreast. The 3rd and 5th Virginia Cavalry regiments, led by sharpshooters, ran along the stone fence with the expectation they would find a gap in it somewhere ...
An expert sharpshooter with the 82nd Infantry Division who used an M1917 Enfield rifle during the Meuse–Argonne offensive near Chatel-Chéhéry, France, 1918 in World War I. Medal of Honor recipient for leading an assault on machine gun positions. [citation needed] 28 [citation needed] United States: Vasily Zaytsev: 1915–1991 1937–1945
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 2 (Pdf), New York: The Century Co., 1887. Hennessy, John J., Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8061-3187-0; Manassas National Battlefield Park - Battle of Second Manassas