The 7th Wisconsin Infantry at Gettysburg
The 7th Wisconsin Infantry was formed in the late summer of 1861 and sent east, where it was brigaded with the 2nd and 6th Wisconsin Infantry regiments, plus the 19th Indiana Infantry. This brigade...
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Colonel James C. Rice’s Report On His Brigade’s Action on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
On the morning of July 2nd, 1863, Colonel James C. Rice was in command of the 44th New York Infantry, which along with the 16th Michigan, 83rd Pennsylvania, and 20th Maine Infantry regiments, made...
The 1st Minnesota Infantry at Gettysburg
The 1st Minnesota Infantry was organized at Fort Snelling in April of 1861 and mustered in on the 29th of the month. The regiment went into action at the first Battle of Bull Run...
December 2013 Alonzo Cushing Medal of Honor Update
There’s been some progress in the ongoing campaign to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to Lt. Alonzo Cushing, the Delafield, Wisconsin native who was killed in action while directing his artillery battery during...
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
In November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln accepted an invitation to speak at the dedication ceremony for the new cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where the Union Army dead from the battle there in July were...
Chamberlain Medal Returns to Maine; Swamp Angel Honored: Civil War in the News Late Summer 2013
A Medal of Honor returns home and Trenton, New Jersey commemorates a cannon’s role in the Civil War in Civil War related news from August and September 2013. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s Medal of Honor...
Dr. Jonathan Letterman’s Report on the Union Army Medical Corps at Gettysburg
Dr. Jonathan Letterman was the Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. At the time, Letterman had only been in his position for a year...
Captain James Hall’s Report On the Action of the 2nd Maine Battery At Gettysburg
One of the first Union artillery units in action at Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863 was the six gun Battery B of the 2nd Maine Light Artillery, under the command of Captain James A....