The 2nd District of Columbia Infantry was a Union Army regiment that served during the American Civil War.
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.
Battery "I" 4th Regiment of Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Battery "M" 4th Regiment of Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
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.
Braugher's first film role was in the 1989's Glory as Thomas Searles, a free, educated black man from the North who joins the first black regiment in the Union Army.
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.
(February 24, 1830 – January 29, 1896) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Asa Howe Cory (May 31, 1814 – June 6, 1892) was a captain of Company H in the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
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.
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.
He was the son of William Parke Herron (1843–1927), a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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.
During the Civil War, berries were hand-picked, hand-canned and soldered for shipping to the Union Army.
The brick Greek Revival building was constructed in 1864 to house the Union Guard of Copperopolis, the town's regiment of the Union Army.
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.
Finally his contraption was used as a signal gun in Athens to warn against advancing Yankees.
Edward Ephraim Cross (April 22, 1832 – July 3, 1863) was a newspaperman and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Stationed atop "Signal Hill", in Manassas, Capt. Alexander saw Union troop movements and signaled to the brigade under Col. Nathan "Shanks" Evans, "Look out for your left, your position is turned", which meant that they were in danger of being attacked on their left flank.
Shelby declared that he and his men preferred exile from the United States to submission to the Union Army.
During the Civil War, McMellen enlisted for service in the Union Army, becoming a private in Co.
Expedition after Forrest was a military movement of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
He wrote several books, including an autobiography of his service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
George Henry Gordon (July 19, 1823 – August 30, 1886) was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
Seeing action against cavalry raiders during the Atlanta Campaign, Hillyer performed well, but the railroad eventually fell to the Union Army.
Maney asked for a reassignment to his native Tennessee, which was threatened by Union forces.
After a limited education and a stint in a "house of refuge" where he learned barbering, Williams enlisted in the Union Army under an assumed name when he was only 14 and fought during the final battles of the American Civil War.
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.
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.
Gustave Paul Cluseret (13 June 1823 – 1900) was a French soldier and politician who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Enlisted as a private in the Union Army in August 1862.
Despite being a South Carolinian, Hawkins served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Henry Baxter (September 8, 1821 – December 30, 1873) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
He entered the Union Army in September 1861 as colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers.
Gibson served in the commissary department of the Union Army from March 1863 to July 1865.
Jacob Downing (April 1830 – 1907) was a major in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
James Harvey Blood (December 29, 1833 – December 29, 1885) was a Commander of the 6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864, and took an active part in equipping troops for the Union Army during the Civil War.
The factory was closed in 1861, not only due to poor sales, but because Allen enlisted in the Union Army.
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At the beginning of the Civil War, his sales plummeted so he closed his business and enlisted in the Union Army.
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.
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.
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.
About 3200 of Lawrence County's men were soldiers in the Union Army by 1862 in the American Civil War.
Lawrence Gustave Murphy (1831 – October 20, 1878) was Irish, Union Army veteran, Grand Army of the Republic member, Republican Party leader, racketeer, Old West businessman and gunman, and a main instigator of the Lincoln County War.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was heavily engaged at Snodgrass Hill, where Union General William H. Thomas made his famous stand, thus saving the Union Army from total collapse.
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.
Samuel, and his wife Letitia, had sons Andrew (1810-1883) and Joshua (1813–1873) who served in the Union Army and Confederate States Navy, respectively, in the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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 William Sweeny (December 25, 1820 – April 10, 1892) was an Irish soldier who served in the Mexican-American War and then was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
Perry was wounded by an artillery shell exploding near his head while he led the 44th Alabama Infantry in Major General John Bell Hood's division's general attack on the left flank of the Union Army line on Cemetery Hill and Little Round Top, near the area of boulders known as Devil's Den, on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and was a captain in the 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment and later served as the lieutenant colonel of that regiment.
In order to protect their valuable gold and silver from approaching Union soldiers, the occupants buried the metals in the ground surrounding the house.
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.
Zealous Bates Tower (January 12, 1819 – March 20, 1900) was an American soldier and civil engineer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Battery "H" 4th Regiment of Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
Union cavalry under David P. Jenkins guarded the region for the early part of the war, deterring Confederate attempts to regain control of the supply routes.
The Camp Jackson Affair was an incident in the American Civil War on 10 May 1861, when Union military forces captured a force pro-secession state militia at Camp Jackson, just outside Saint Louis, Missouri, and subsequently clashed with pro-secession rioters in the city.
Local Confederate cavalry under the command of Captain Alexander Goodwin unsuccessfully contested the advance of a Federal column led by Brigadier General Alexander Asboth during the preliminary phase of what would become the Battle of Marianna.
He and many of these Creek men were recruited to the Union Army and served with federal forces in the Civil War.
During the American Civil War, Jenkins served in Union Army under Generals Grant, Pope, Sherman and Burnside in the Western Theater.
The II Corps, commanded during the war by Sumner, Darius N. Couch, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Andrew A. Humphreys, had the deserved reputation of being one of the best in the Eastern Theater.
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.
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.
Francis (Franz) Huebschmann (born in Riethnordhausen, Grand Duchy of Weimar, 19 April 1817; died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 21 March 1880) was a noted surgeon of the American Civil War for the Union Army and a Wisconsin physician and politician.
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.
During the American Civil War, he recruited a volunteer company and entered the Union Army in August 1861 as a first lieutenant in the 6th Regiment West Virginia Infantry.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but instead, with the Civil War raging, entered the United States Army in 1864.
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.
Jabez Vodrey died in 1861 and his son John was killed in the Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia while fighting for the Union Army's 46th Pennsylvania Infantry on May 25, 1864.
In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.
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.
Heg served as a colonel and brigade commander in the Union Army in the American Civil War.
Some companies of men from the Tenth Kentucky Infantry were mustered into Union service having come from the village of Manton.
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.
The city became an important distribution center during the Civil War for the Union Army, because three railroads connected to Jeffersonville and because the Ohio River served as a defensive barrier against invasion from Confederate attack, it was deemed a safer location than the more vulnerable city of Louisville, Kentucky located on the southern side of the river.
A Union Army recruiting camp was established in Falmouth in September 1861.
The battle was fought on October 8, 1862, between the Union Army of the Ohio, commanded by Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, and the Confederate Army of Mississippi, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg.
Philip Henson (December 28, 1827 - January 10, 1911) was a scout and spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
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.
(often called RD Mussey) (May 30, 1833–May 29, 1892) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and a distinguished lawyer.
Green organized Roanoke Cemetery in 1862, which was one of the first regular burial places for Union Army soldiers.
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.
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.
At Shiloh, in command of a brigade, he successfully defended a gap in the Union line.
When Tim Keefe was a child, Patrick served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.