The 1st District of Columbia Infantry was a Union Army infantry regiment which fought in the American Civil War.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Served with the Union Army from October 1, 1861 until he was forced by severe frostbite to resign on August 21, 1862.
•
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.
Vogel was born on 18 September 1882 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia His father, Theodore Knight Vogel was a founding member of the Loyal Legion and a Captain in the Union Army.
In the fall of 1863, after the Union Army occupied Little Rock, David returned to escort his mother and sisters to Mississippi but never left Arkansas.
During the American Civil War, Jenkins served in Union Army under Generals Grant, Pope, Sherman and Burnside in the Western Theater.
Finally his contraption was used as a signal gun in Athens to warn against advancing Yankees.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On the east bank of the river, across from the inn, lay the remnants of Camp Reynolds, a Union Army camp and gun embankment used in the Civil War.
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.
Despite being a South Carolinian, Hawkins served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
On September 1, 1862, Union General Philip Kearny was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Young "Heck" was entrusted with the general's horse and equipment and was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to take them through the lines to General Kearny's widow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They traveled together 400 miles through hostile country, and reached the Union lines on January 14, 1865.
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.
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.
After his political career he served as a colonel in the Union Army during the United States Civil War.
Norman Jonathan Hall (1837 – May 26, 1867) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War, perhaps most noted for his defense of his sector of the Union line against Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
•
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.
Several of these Forty-Eighters went on to become Civil War soldiers, the great majority in the Union Army, and American politicians.
There were accommodations for two full regiments of Union soldiers with barracks, mess halls, and training fields.
(June 18, 1839 – April 29, 1920) was an American banker and brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Shortly after graduating in 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army and by the end of the war had risen to the rank of brigadier general.
In order to protect their valuable gold and silver from approaching Union soldiers, the occupants buried the metals in the ground surrounding the house.
With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Meredith enlisted in the Union Army, but Governor of Indiana Oliver Hazard Perry Morton soon appointed Meredith state commissary-general.
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.
Soviet Union | United States Army | British Army | European Union | Union Army | rugby union | Army | Red Army | United States Army Corps of Engineers | Union | Confederate States Army | United States Army Air Forces | Australian Army | Indian Army | International Telecommunication Union | trade union | French Army | Union (American Civil War) | British Indian Army | Provisional Irish Republican Army | Imperial Japanese Army | army | United States Army Reserve | Union Pacific Railroad | England national rugby union team | Continental Army | People's Liberation Army | Army of the Potomac | American Civil Liberties Union | Wales national rugby union team |
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.
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.
Army of the West (Union Army), an 1861 Union Army, during the American Civil War led by Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon.
(February 24, 1830 – January 29, 1896) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Union soldiers had crowded about the Adair County courthouse square in Columbia, as Confederate troops marched northward from Burkesville in Cumberland County by what is now Kentucky Highway 704 and Kentucky Route 61.
On October 13, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was on one of his typical cavalry raids to capture supply wagons and blundered into the rear guard of the Union III Corps near Warrenton.
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.
An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the Union Army, where he was a supervisor of freedmen on plantations at Port Royal, South Carolina during the Civil War.
He and many of these Creek men were recruited to the Union Army and served with federal forces in the Civil War.
He was promoted to brigadier general in the United States Volunteers on April 11, 1862 and placed in command of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, III Corps, Army of the Potomac.
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.
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.
Henry Baxter (September 8, 1821 – December 30, 1873) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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.
Jacob Downing (April 1830 – 1907) was a major in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.
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 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.
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.
About 3200 of Lawrence County's men were soldiers in the Union Army by 1862 in the American Civil War.
He joined the Union Army in St. Louis in 1864 (Company H, 2nd Colorado Cavalry) as a private, and was honorably discharged the following year.
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.
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.
A Union Army recruiting camp was established in Falmouth in September 1861.
From 1958-1959, Whitney had a co-starring role as Buck Sinclair, a former sergeant of the Union Army, in all thirty-nine episodes of the ABC western series, The Rough Riders.
(often called RD Mussey) (May 30, 1833–May 29, 1892) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and a distinguished lawyer.
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.
Klotz enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, and was chosen colonel of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Emergency Militia in 1862.
He served on Samuel P. Heintzelman's III Corps staff, as a draughtsman on map work, from January 12, 1862.
•
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.
Green organized Roanoke Cemetery in 1862, which was one of the first regular burial places for Union Army soldiers.
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 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.
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.