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60 unusual facts about Union Army


184 38th Street

On September 17, 1862, Catherine Burkhart, a 15 year old girl who lived in the home with her mother, was killed in an explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal, where she worked assembling munitions for the Union Army.

2nd District of Columbia Infantry

The 2nd District of Columbia Infantry was a Union Army regiment that served during the American Civil War.

4th U.S. Light Artillery, Battery M

Battery "M" 4th Regiment of Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

5th District of Columbia Infantry Battalion

The 5th District of Columbia Infantry Battalion was an infantry battalion that served in the Union Army between April and July, 1861, during the American Civil War.

Aguanga, California

In 1864, Giftaler’s Ranch was purchased by Jacob Bergman, also a German immigrant, stagecoach driver and Union Army veteran, who operated the Bergman Ranch there for many years until his death on September 13, 1894.

Andrew K. Campbell

Andrew K. Campbell (1828–1867) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, and the last official commanding officer of the 66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Anson Stager

Anson Stager (April 20, 1825 - March 26, 1885) was the co-founder of Western Union, the first president of Western Electric Manufacturing Company and Union Army general, where he was head of the Military Telegraph Department during the Civil War.

Antietam Creek

Burnside's Bridge became a major focus of combat as Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside repeatedly tried to capture the bridge from Confederate forces guarding the crossing from a high bluff overlooking the creek.

Asa Howe Cory

Served with the Union Army from October 1, 1861 until he was forced by severe frostbite to resign on August 21, 1862.

Benjamin Franklin Gordon

In March and April of 1864, Shelby's men harassed and skirmished with the Union Army force under the command of Major General Frederick Steele during his Camden Expedition, part of the Red River Campaign.

Burton Allen Holder

During the Red River Campaign, Holder led the 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment Dismounted, also known as the First Indian Texas Regiment which kept Union forces out of the Red River and new areas of Texas for the rest of the war.

Cam Kirby

His son Joseph Kirby (1844–1937) enlisted as mercenary in the 184th Regiment of New York State Infantry of the Union Army during the American Civil War and returned to Canada in 1865 and joined the Ashberminam Company of Volunteers during the Fenian Raids of 1866.

Charles C. Ellsworth

In the spring of 1863, during the Civil War, Ellsworth was appointed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to be Paymaster of Volunteers in the Union Army, in which position he served until the end of the war with the rank of major.

Charles W. Sandford

His command seriously weakened due to manpower shortages during the American Civil War, Sandford served on active duty with the Union Army from April 19 to July 25, 1861.

Chitto Harjo

He and many of these Creek men were recruited to the Union Army and served with federal forces in the Civil War.

Columbia, Maine

During the Civil War, berries were hand-picked, hand-canned and soldered for shipping to the Union Army.

Columbiana County, Ohio

It was the scene of one of the northern-most action fought during the American Civil War; in July 1863 Confederate raiders under John Morgan were surrounded and captured by Union forces.

Corinne, Utah

As the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads approached their historic meeting place at Promontory Summit early in 1869, a group of former Union Army officers and some determined non-Mormon merchants from Salt Lake City decided to locate a Gentile town on the Union Pacific line, believing that the town could compete economically and politically with the Saints of Utah.

Double-barreled cannon

Finally his contraption was used as a signal gun in Athens to warn against advancing Yankees.

Edward Ferrero

He also served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, most remembered for his dishonourable conduct in the Battle of the Crater (July 1864), reported drinking with another general behind the lines, while both their units were virtually destroyed.

Edwin Adams Davis

Shelby declared that he and his men preferred exile from the United States to submission to the Union Army.

Elias McMellen

During the Civil War, McMellen enlisted for service in the Union Army, becoming a private in Co.

Expedition after Forrest

Expedition after Forrest was a military movement of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

False Claims Act

During the war, unscrupulous contractors sold the Union Army decrepit horses and mules in ill health, faulty rifles and ammunition, and rancid rations and provisions, among other unscrupulous actions.

Frank Wilkeson

He wrote several books, including an autobiography of his service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

George D. Wagner

George Day Wagner (September 22, 1829 – February 13, 1869) was an Indiana politician, farmer, and soldier, serving as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Glorieta Pass

The victory by the Union Army (primarily in the form of the Colorado Militia) prevented the breakout of the Confederate Army forces onto the High Plains on the east side of Sangre de Cristo Mountains, halting the intended Confederate advance northward along the base of the Rocky Mountains.

Goode Bryan

During the Battle of Gettysburg, the 16th Georgia was among the troops that were poised for a late attack on a perceived weak spot in the Union line near Little Round Top, but were recalled by Lt. Gen. James Longstreet.

Halbert S. Greenleaf

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Enlisted as a private in the Union Army in August 1862.

Henry C. Deming

He entered the Union Army in September 1861 as colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers.

Henry R. Gibson

Gibson served in the commissary department of the Union Army from March 1863 to July 1865.

Horace Ladd Moore

He studied law and one month after his admission to the bar enlisted in the Union Army in the Second Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry, on May 14, 1861, and served continuously until June 30, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service as lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry.

Immortal Six Hundred

In 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned 50 Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon civilians in the city.

Jacob Downing

Jacob Downing (April 1830 – 1907) was a major in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

John M. Davy

He served in the Union Army during the Civil War as a first lieutenant in Company G, One Hundred and Eighth Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, in 1862 and 1863.

John Trout Greble

When the Union Army troops were repelled, by his management of the guns he protected them from pursuit and destruction.

Joseph H. Allen

The factory was closed in 1861, not only due to poor sales, but because Allen enlisted in the Union Army.

At the beginning of the Civil War, his sales plummeted so he closed his business and enlisted in the Union Army.

Joseph H. Tucker

Originally a training camp for Union Army recruits, in 1862 and 1863 Camp Douglas was converted into a prison camp for Confederate States Army prisoners captured by the Union Army.

Joseph Kirkland

Born in Geneva, New York, to educator, William Kirkland and author, Caroline Mathilda (Stansbury) Kirkland, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major.

Juneteenth

On June 18, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived on the island of Galveston, Texas, to take possession of the state and enforce the emancipation of its slaves.

Lloyd Nolan

On October 2, 1962, Nolan appeared again on Laramie in the episode "War Hero" as former Union Army General George Barton, who arrives in Laramie as a potential candidate for President of the United States.

Lucien Lester Ainsworth

During the Civil War entered the Union Army in 1862 as captain of Company C, 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and served three years in areas of conflict with Native American tribes in the northern Great Plains.

Martin Davis Hardin

Martin Davis Hardin (June 26, 1837 – December 12, 1923) was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Mary Ritter Beard

He attended Northwestern Christian College for two years before enrolling in Asbury University in 1861, and made the unorthodox decision for a Quaker of joining the Union Army shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Moses A. McLaughlin

Moses A. McLaughlin (1834 - 1899) Irish born, California Militia officer, Union Army officer, farmer, later a doctor.

N. K. Boswell

He is believed to have served in the Union Army, but it is not certain as to from which state he originated, although it is believed he may have come from New Jersey.

Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings

After his political career he served as a colonel in the Union Army during the United States Civil War.

Pendleton County, Kentucky

A Union Army recruiting camp was established in Falmouth in September 1861.

Pike County, Arkansas

In 1864 Murfreesboro served as a winter quarters for the Confederate regiments assigned to that area, with Union Army regiments wintering just eighteen miles away in and around Antoine.

Rancho Napa

In 1863 Salvador Vallejo was a Major in the Union Army, and after the Civil War, he resigned and returned to his ranch in Napa in 1865, and died in 1876.

Rancho Temecula

It then became a Union Army cavalry camp in 1862, part of the supply route for Fort Yuma and the California Column march into New Mexico Territory.

Reuben D. Mussey, Jr.

(often called RD Mussey) (May 30, 1833–May 29, 1892) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and a distinguished lawyer.

Sherod Hunter

Sherod Hunter (March 5, 1834-Date Unknown) was the commander of the Confederate unit operating against Union Army forces in present day Arizona during the American Civil War.

Thomas S. Hammond

His grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman from New York.

Tim Keefe

When Tim Keefe was a child, Patrick served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Wheaton High School

The school is named for the Wheaton area, which is in turn named for Frank Wheaton (1833-1903), a career officer in the Union Army who rose to the rank of major-general while serving before, during, and after the Civil War.

William H. Seward, Jr.

(June 18, 1839 – April 29, 1920) was an American banker and brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

William Lee Golden

In order to protect their valuable gold and silver from approaching Union soldiers, the occupants buried the metals in the ground surrounding the house.

William W. Wilshire

He entered the Union Army as major in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served from July 16, 1862, to July 16, 1864, when he resigned his commission on account of ill health.


3rd District of Columbia Infantry Battalion

The 3rd District of Columbia Infantry Battalion was an infantry battalion that served in the Union Army between April and July, 1861, during the American Civil War.

4th U.S. Light Artillery, Battery H

Battery "H" 4th Regiment of Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

8th District of Columbia Infantry Battalion

The 8th District of Columbia Infantry Battalion was an infantry battalion that served in the Union Army between April and July, 1861, during the American Civil War.

Army of the West

Army of the West (Union Army), an 1861 Union Army, during the American Civil War led by Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon.

Arthur Ducat

(February 24, 1830 – January 29, 1896) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Charles R. Train

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the Civil War served in the Union Army as a volunteer aide-de-camp to General George B. McClellan.

Copperopolis Armory

The brick Greek Revival building was constructed in 1864 to house the Union Guard of Copperopolis, the town's regiment of the Union Army.

David P. Jenkins

During the American Civil War, Jenkins served in Union Army under Generals Grant, Pope, Sherman and Burnside in the Western Theater.

Dead Man's Burden

They're given hope for a better life when a mining company shows interest in purchasing their homestead, but things become tense when Martha's brother Wade (Barlow Jacobs), who defected to the Union Army returns home after hearing of their father's death- unaware that Martha herself was the one who brought about his demise.

Elisha Johnson

During the American Civil War Union Army General William Sherman's soldiers destroyed the Tellico Iron Works but Sherman acquitted Johnson for his part in supplying the Confederate Army because of Johnson's northern birth and sympathies.

Francis Preston Blair

On April 17, 1861, just three days after the surrender of Fort Sumter, Lincoln asked Francis Blair to convey his offer to Colonel Robert E. Lee to command the Union Army.

George Hillyer

Seeing action against cavalry raiders during the Atlanta Campaign, Hillyer performed well, but the railroad eventually fell to the Union Army.

Goodman-LeGrand House

After the 1862 Capture of New Orleans, Gary made the house available to numerous families of refugees fleeing the Union Army.

Henry Baxter

Henry Baxter (September 8, 1821 – December 30, 1873) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Humphreys Peak

Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Huntsville Depot

Huntsville was occupied by Union forces in 1862 during the Civil War as a strategic point on the railroad and the depot was used as a prison for Confederate soldiers.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

Jonathan Baxter Harrison

Volunteering for service in the Union Army, he was soon given a medical discharge, and spent the remaining war years as editor of the Winchester Journal in Randolph County, Indiana.

Joseph E. Johnston

He defended the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, withdrawing under the pressure of a superior force under Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan.

Junius Henri Browne

They traveled together 400 miles through hostile country, and reached the Union lines on January 14, 1865.

Kevin Hagen

In the story line, Cort Evers, who is much younger than he appears, seeks revenge against his brother Mitch (Harry Carey, Jr.), whom he mistakenly blames for betraying six Union Army prisoners from their hometown during the American Civil War.

Knickerbocker Greys

The Knickerbocker Greys was founded by Mrs. Augusta Lawler Stacey Curtis, the wife of Dr. Edward Curtis, a noted New York physician who served on the staff of the Surgeon General of the Union Army, and assisted in the autopsy on the body of President Abraham Lincoln.

Leffert L. Buck

Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and

Manton, Kentucky

Some companies of men from the Tenth Kentucky Infantry were mustered into Union service having come from the village of Manton.

McPherson Ridge

McPherson Ridge is a landform used for military engagements during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, First Day, when the I Corps (Union Army) had a headquarters on the ridge and was defeated by the Confederate division of Major General Henry Heth.

Moratock Park

Union cavalry, under the command of George Stoneman, destroyed most of the original foundryworks while conducting raids through the area in 1865 during the American Civil War.

Philip Henson

Philip Henson (December 28, 1827 - January 10, 1911) was a scout and spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Prince Philippe, Count of Paris

An historian, journalist and outspoken democrat, Philippe volunteered to serve as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War along with his younger brother, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres.

Raid at Combahee Ferry

The Raid at Combahee Ferry was a military operation during the American Civil War; it was conducted on June 1 and June 2, 1863, by elements of the Union Army along the Combahee River in Beaufort and Colleton counties in southeast South Carolina.

Robert Klotz

Klotz enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, and was chosen colonel of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Emergency Militia in 1862.

Robert Knox Sneden

Robert Knox Sneden (1832 in Nova Scotia – 1918) was an American landscape painter, as well as a map-maker for the Union Army during the American Civil War who was a prolific illustrator and memoirist.

Robert William Weir Carrall

He practiced in Canada for a bit before becoming an assistant surgeon for the Union Army during the American Civil War working in Emory and Henry College Hospital (1862 to 1863) and at the Marine United States General Hospital at New Orleans (1863 to 1865).

Rocky Springs, Mississippi

The community of Rocky Springs began to decline during the Civil War, at which time Union forces passed through the area during the advance on nearby Port Gibson.

Samuel Abbott Green

Green organized Roanoke Cemetery in 1862, which was one of the first regular burial places for Union Army soldiers.

Stanton Davis Kirkham

He was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the only child of Major Murray S. Davis (Commander, 8th Calvalry, Troop A, Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, 1867) and Julia Edith Kirkham Davis, daughter of Gen. Ralph Wilson Kirkham, Union Army general, who adopted Kirkham and brought him to the United States.

Thomas L. Kane

Thomas Leiper Kane (January 27, 1822 – December 26, 1883) was an American attorney, abolitionist, and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union Army colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War.

Wilmer McLean

Union Army artillery fired at McLean's house, which was being used as a headquarters for Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard, and a cannonball dropped through the kitchen fireplace.