USGenWeb Project Louisiana Archives - Confederate Military Units Louisiana confederate military units. Regiment or Battalion, Filename by donating any records of Louisiana confederate or union military units during http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/military/WBTS/CSA-military-units.htm
Native Americans - Stand Watie James Blunt and 5000 union troops. Gen. Thomas Hindman led a confederate army of A Guide to Cherokee confederate military units, 1861 1865 from Lars http://www.nativeamericans.com/StandWatie.htm
Extractions: Stand Watie was born Dec. 12, 1806, near Rome Georgia, and died Sept. 9, 1871, at his home on Honey Creek in Delaware County, Oklahoma, near the northwest corner of Arkansas. He learned to read and write English at a mission school in Georgia, and occasionally helped write for the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper (after Sequoyah developed the 86-symbol Cherokee syllabary in 1821) with his brother Buck Watie (who took the name of Elias Boudinot from a white benefactor). His father David Watie (or Oowatie) was the brother of Major Ridge, and the Ridge-Watie families became wealthy slave-owning planters in the new Cherokee constitutional republic that replaced tribal government in 1827. The state of Georgia opposed any form of tribal government and in 1828 began to pass repressive anti-Indian laws without any recourse for the Cherokee in state courts. After gold was discovered on Cherokee lands in northern Georgia, 3000 white settlers poached on Indian lands. Only the treaties with the federal government gave Indians protection from the states. The Supreme Court under John Marshall declared the repressive state laws null and void in the 1832 Worcester v. Georgia
Civil War Rosters - All States UPDATED 9/18/05 But don t just try Civil War try surnames and military units! Index of Civil War Naval Forces - confederate and union Ships http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw.html
Military Records:Civil War By State UPDATE 09/18/05 military units of South Carolina in Service to the CSA To include HISTORY and Virginia confederate Regimental Index Virginia union Regimental Index http://www.geocities.com/r_leddy/cw/statenz.html
The Kentucky Civil War Research Series Future books are planned for the Kentucky confederate Home, Kentucky Civil War military units, a Kentucky union Veterans Roster, and History of the Eighth http://www.kycivilwarbooks.netfirms.com/
Extractions: Web Hosting by Netfirms Free Domain Names by Netfirms I am nearing completion of a book on the events that took place in Webster County, Kentucky during the Civil War. This book will include sketches of the units recruited in the county, as well as a biographical roster of nearly 600 men who served from or are buried in the county. I am seeking information on all soldiers from Webster County, Union or Confederate, and will gratefully acknowledge all assistance provided in the book. Do you have information on your Webster County ancestor, but don't know if he served? Contact me and I will be glad to share any information that I have. History and Roster of Company K, Tenth Kentucky Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. This book tells the story of a Western Kentucky cavalry company from Caldwell, Christian, and Hopkins Counties that served in Col. Adam R. Johnson's Tenth Kentucky Partisan Rangers and Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry Division during the Civil War. During its service, Company K took part in battles at Madisonville, Owensboro, and Ashbysburg, as well as taking part in Morgan's famous Christmas Raid and Indiana-Ohio Raid. This book includes ten photos and a detailed roster of the company, with the soldiers' compiled service records and biographical information when available. This soft-cover book is 104 pages and 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches.
Using Virginia Civil War Records to service in Virginia confederate as well as union military units were later The papers of Virginias Department of confederate military Records, http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/rn14_usingcivwar.htm
Extractions: Confederate Disability Applications ... Published Resources The ordinance of secession adopted by the Virginia State Convention in Richmond on 17 April 1861 was the result of the failure of all political efforts to avert civil war. Virginia joined an increasing list of southern states dissatisfied with further participation in the Union. The seceding states chose, rather, to form a confederation of states in order to maintain the southern political and social order. The great debates over popular sovereignty and states rights ended. These issues were settled by a clash of arms. The convention realized the consequences of secession and so instructed Governor John Letcher to make preparations to defend the state from probable attack. The total armed militia force throughout the state by 21 April 1861 numbered 12,050 troops. By January 1864, the most reliable statistics available reveal that over 153,000 Virginians had served in the states military forces. The Old Dominion, however, was far from fully prepared for war. Virginia became the battleground for twenty-six major engagements and over four hundred smaller clashes. Ultimately, more men fought and died in Virginia than in any other state. The legacy of each soldiers service remains within the surviving written record. Researchers using Virginia Civil War records should examine a variety of materials in order to chronicle a soldiers military experience.
Cavalry History King Phillip II of Macedonia used Cavalry as major military units for the first time in Europe Fights ensued between the confederate and union cavalry. http://www.cavhooah.com/history.htm
Extractions: World of CAV Web Search CavHooah Cavalry History NEW! The Cavalryman and His Horse - Ordnance notes from First Cavalry, 1883. The origin of the use of the horse as a means of transport goes back to prehistoric times. The fable of the centaurs, if the derivation from ~epretv, to goad, raiipos, bull, be accepted, would indicate the early existence of pastoral peoples living on horseback. Archaeological discoveries in India, Persia, Assyria and Egypt show that in the polished stone age quaternary man had domesticated the horse, while a Chinese treatise, the Goei-leaotse, the fifth book of the Veuking, a sort of military code dating from the reign of the emperor Hoang-Ti (2637 years B.C.), places the cavalry on the wings of the army. The Hebrews understood the use of the horse in war (Job xxxix. 1825), as did the Persians (Cyrus at the battle of Thymbra), Greeks and Romans. The Greeks and Romans, especially the former, were skilled horsemen, and feats on horseback were a feature of their games. They used no stirrup, but had both bridle and bit. They rode bareback, or on a cloth or skin, strapped to the horse. Chivalry was the system, spirit or customs of medieval knighthood. It was the idealized code of gallantry and honor that medieval knights were pledged to observe. It was founded on the principal virtues of piety, honor, valor, courtesy, chastity and loyalty. Chivalry simply means in its original sense 'service on horseback', and it is derived from the French word '
CSA units operated in northern Missouri and were chased by union occupation troops. They were not organized by confederate military authorities but were http://hem.passagen.se/csa01/
Extractions: There is a deplorable lack of writing on the Confederate Partisan Ranger Corps and the guerrilla commands outside the corps. I have now worked for more than eight years on a study of the partisan rangers, unit by unit. There are of course many difficulties. The greatest maybe is, like I do, to live in Europe and that it is an Atlantic Ocean between the researcher and the sources. So the work progresses slowly. In May 1861 a man interested in military affairs in the village of Forest Depot, Bedford Country, Virginia sat down to write a letter to General Robert E. Lee. Captain R.C.W.Radford offered to raise and mount a company of a thousand active men for Ranger or irregular service if the Confederate government was willing to arm them with long-range guns and pistols. The object of such a unit would be to annoy and harass an invading army, cut off escorts and detachments. Lee sent Captain Radfords letter to Colonel Jubal A. Early, who was in charge of organising in Radfords area and on the letter was made a note that the writer would probably be suitable as a company commander. Had Radford alone been the man behind the idea it would probably not have come to much. But as he wrote the newspaper Dispatch of Richmond had a leading editorial urging that men of the Old Dominion form themselves into companies for guerrilla warfare
Extractions: Civil War Timeline1863 - 1865 Jan. 2-3, 1863 Skirmishing near Chickasaw Bayou, and Sherman withdraws to Milliken's Bend, LA Jan. 15, 1863 Grant moves his headquarters to Milliken's Bend; Grant orders work to begin on a new canal across De Soto Point which became known as Grant's Canal Feb. 3, 1863 Yazoo Pass expedition begins, intending to approach Vicksburg from the north through the rivers of the Delta - a significant event in the history of military engineering; it begins Grant's second attempt to take Vicksburg Feb. 16, 1863 Skirmish at Yazoo Pass Mar. 11 - 13, 1863 Engagements at Fort Pemberton in Greenwood Mar. 14, 1863 Steele's Bayou expedition begins to support Union forces engaged at Fort Pemberton, Sherman personally commands the army units Mar. 16, 1863 Engagement at Fort Pemberton Mar. 21-22, 1863 Skirmishing on Deer Creek Mar. 24,1863 Engagement at Fort Pemberton Mar. 24-25, 1863
Did Blacks Typically Serve Slaves were forced into service by confederate military units as I then got away from the confederate Army, and went with (union) General Cook s Army to http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/burke_cw.htm
Reparations Have Already Been Paid For Slavery Of the (overwhelmingly White) men enrolled in military units, union and confederate (4) In confederate units, deaths approached 19% of the men enrolled, http://www.bluffton.edu/~bergerd/essays/reparations.html
Extractions: War is hell, you cannot refine it. W.T. Sherman The topic of reparations for American Black slavery has been much discussed, and that discussion is not over. I think that such reparations are not justified. Unlike most who argue against monetary reparations, I think they are not only possible (though difficult) but justif no other payment had yet been made. However, reparations for slavery have already been made. The name of the reparations program was "The American Civil War." Consider the following facts About 11% of the total population (counting men, women and children) of the 1860 United States was in military service for some portion of the war; from the Confederate States considered separately, about 13% of the total population was enrolled. Of those enrolled in military service, the vast majority were White and all were male. Of the (overwhelmingly White) men enrolled in military units, Union and Confederate, 14% died of their wounds or of disease; another 11% were wounded but survived. In Confederate units, deaths approached 19% of the men enrolled, an order of magnitude higher than the death rate in any other American war. This amounted to an aggregate 550,000 dead and more than 400,000 wounded
Extractions: An excellent source of brief regimental histories and biographical sketches of officers. Dornbusch, Charles E. Military Bibliography of the Civil War . 4 vol's. New York: New York Public Library, 1971-87. A guide to published Union and Confederate unit histories. Holzer, Harold, editor. The Union Preserved : A Guide to Civil War Records in the New York State Archives . NY : New York State Partnership Trust, 1999. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue . Gaithersburg, MD : Olde Soldier Books, 1990. Munden, Kenneth W., and Henry Putney Beers. The Union: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War . National Archives and Records Administration. 1962. Reprint, 1986
Ancestry.com - Locating Union & Confederate Records Enlistment Records Regular Army, union, and confederate Volunteers records Showing Service of military units in Volunteer confederate Organizations http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=4874
Ancestry.com - Louisiana Civil War Records Official Records of the union and confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion 4Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr. Guide to Louisiana confederate military units http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=2150
Georgia Units In The Civil War confederate. Overview of military organization Click here for information on Georgia soldiers and units that volunteered for union service http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gaunits.htm
Extractions: Overview of military organization Infantry Georgia Volunteer Infantry Generally, you don't think about Georgians fighting for the Union cause during the Civil War, but this did take place in limited cases involving residents living in extreme North Georgia. Click here for information on Georgia soldiers and units that volunteered for Union service Go to Civil War in Georgia page
Civil War Only a few blacks actually served alongside whites in confederate units and received union officers also organized freedmen into military units, http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab10.htm
Extractions: Soldiers who wore the blue and the gray included native and foreign whites, immigrants of all nationalities, free blacks, and slaves, as well as women, who served as army nurses and canteen women. Most Louisiana Indians did not participate in either side, choosing not to risk their lives to defend slavery or the few rights that they had. The drive to keep Louisiana in the Union was strong statewide, especially in New Orleans, where the popular vote in the November 1860 election was three to one against secession from the Union. Once Abraham Lincoln was elected president in that year's election, however, sentiments changed rapidly, as Lincoln represented the purely northern Republican party, and many seemed to see his election as a declaration of hostility by the North. Influenced by South Carolina's decision to secede from the Union, Louisiana voters elected delegates to the state's secession convention, which met in Baton Rouge in January 1861. Among the delegates, secessionists outnumbered unionists two to one, and the militant attitudes of the public and the press further influenced the convention's vote. Members signed the ordinance of secession on January 26, 1861, thereby making Louisiana the sixth state to secede from the Union.
Origin Of The Confederate Battleflag the complex of military units operating in the region made it a bloody Northern sympathizers who were not in the regular union Army formed the http://www.scvcamp469-nbf.com/forrestandfortpillow.htm
Extractions: Recently there has been a renewed statement of antagonism toward Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in our area as a part of the statement of anger toward the Confederate flag. At the opposite pole are those who have much admiration for Gen. Forrest. It is my opinion that many of those who are singling out Gen. Forrest know very little about him and are largely influenced by what they have read that came from the Northern Press during the War Between the States. Mr. Jack Hurst, in 1993, published what I consider the best book written on Gen. Forrest, entitled Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Biography . In it Hurst did an excellent job in describing Forrest's pre-military life and the times in which he lived. He gave us an excellent picture of the man as a person. From Hurst, it is apparent that Gen. Forrest was an opportunist throughout his life but was also, at the same time, a man of pride who tried hard to live his life with a high code of ethics. This nature permitted him to progress from a poor lad with very little education and one whose father died when he was young, to a man of considerable wealth by 1861; to progress from an enlisted private to a Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army; to become a military leader so effective that Gen. Sherman said that the war in the west could not be won as long as Gen. Forrest was alive; to become a handler of cavalry so effective that the German High Command sent military men to Tennessee and Mississippi before WWII to study his tactics, and then applied them to their Panzer Units during WWII.
Civil War In Virginia - Resources names of individual soldiers and the military units in which they served Official Records of the union and confederate Navies in the War of the http://www.vahistorical.org/research/cw_history.htm
Extractions: Search the collections Site Map Home Research > Civil War in Virginia - resources War came to Virginia shortly after its leaders voted to secede from the United States on 17 April 1861. For the next four years the Old Dominion was the major battleground of the Civil War. Its geographical location, being so near Washington, D.C., and the fact that Virginia's capital city of Richmond also served as the southern capital, guaranteed that Union armies would try to end the war quickly by capturing the seat of the Confederate government. By the end of the war in April 1865 Virginia had hosted over four hundred military engagements, including twenty-six major battles. The presence of so many soldiers marching and fighting across the state also devastated the economy of the Old Dominion. Farms and towns suffered under the weight of occupying armies. The war also ended slavery forever. Thus Virginia, home to the largest population of slaves in the country, experienced a difficult transition. Resources Anyone conducting research on the Civil War in Virginia is faced with a daunting task. Thousands of books have been written about America's bloodiest war, and many of those focus entirely or at least in part on the war in Virginia. Almost every aspect of the state's wartime experience has been written about. Studies on the economic, military, social, and political effects of the Civil War fill the shelves of bookstores and libraries across the country. Biographies of major military and political leaders also account for a large portion of the Civil War library.
NARA - Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles Compiled records showing service of military units in confederate organizations on microfilm M861 Appendix E Civil War union Volunteer Regimental Books http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1995/summer/little-regiment-a.html
Extractions: A Checklist for Sources on Regimental History in the National Archives Note : Private letters and diaries should be sought outside the National Archives, in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections , the Library of Congress's Civil War Manuscripts , and at the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA. Photographs can be sought at the Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, the Division of Prints and Photographs at the Library of Congress, the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives, and the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA. Union Volunteer Regiments Before you begin You should be aware of these published sources: Charles E. Dornbusch
NARA - Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles A good union name search (since regiments are composed of individuals) should consider Compiled records showing service of military units in confederate http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1995/summer/little-regiment-a.html