to the Civil War, when a grieving country sought to honor the many brave men lost in the bloody conflict, including Sgt. Joseph Allen Frith. Frith was a handsome, 23-year-old, gray-eyed farmer who ...

Charles Nathan Everts was a Union sergeant in the Civil War, in Company D, 4th Regiment of the Kansas Infantry. He died on ...

Sgt. Carney was born into slavery. He joined the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, said the National Museum of the U.S. Army. "As his regiment gained the crest ...

As the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment stormed ... It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw ...

Its members were discharged and paid off at Camp Cleveland (see CIVIL WAR CAMPS IN CLEVELAND ... It’s inscription reads: “Sergeant McKinley Co. E. 23rd Ohio Vol. Infantry, while in charge of the ...

Under fire and incredible stress, Color Sergeant ... ending the Civil War. After the fighting ceased, Barnum, Kiggins and the rest of the 149th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment were mustered ...

Nervous before combat, the infantry got chatty and revealed deep knowledge of Civil War history. “Of course the war was about slavery,” Confederate Sergeant Matthew Connor said. “Read any st ...

Then again, assault of the enemy infantry formations by column was less common in American Civil War battles in contrast to the Napoleonic battles. The American commanders liked to march in column and ...

nearly a quarter century after the Civil War ended. A Confederate sergeant of the 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment prepared his soldiers at camp for the impending “Battle of Siemers Farm.” ...

How so many Civil War veterans killed in battles came to ... Beech, Medal of Honor recipient, who served in Company B, 4th New Jersey Infantry. Sergeant Beech’s Medal of Honor Action took ...

the first black regiment in the Civil War. Karl Puckett [email protected] The 1st South included men like Sgt. Prince Rivers, who was born enslaved to Henry Middleton Stuart, who owned a ...