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63 unusual facts about Union Army


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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.

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 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.

Albert D. Richardson

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

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.

Charles D. Herron

He was the son of William Parke Herron (1843–1927), a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Chitto Harjo

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

Clayton Barney Vogel

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.

Colton Greene

It was hoped these guns could be used to attack the Federal arsenal in St. Louis, however the captains arrived with their artillery too late to help in the effort, and the cannon were captured by Union troops.

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 Owen Dodd

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.

Edward E. Cross

Edward Ephraim Cross (April 22, 1832 – July 3, 1863) was a newspaperman and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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.

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.

Gem of the Ocean

Aunt Ester, the drama's 285-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life and in search of redemption.

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.

George Hillyer

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

George Maney

Maney asked for a reassignment to his native Tennessee, which was threatened by Union forces.

George Washington Williams

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.

Glen Ferris, West Virginia

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.

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.

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 Van Aernam

He served in the Union Army as a surgeon in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, from September 26, 1862 to November 5, 1864.

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.

James Blood

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.

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 Sebrie Watts

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.

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 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 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.

Lawrence County, Ohio

About 3200 of Lawrence County's men were soldiers in the Union Army by 1862 in the American Civil War.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings

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

Norman J. Hall

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.

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.

Robert Klotz

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

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).

Samuel Humphreys

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).

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.

Thomas William Sweeny

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.

Turners

Several of these Forty-Eighters went on to become Civil War soldiers, the great majority in the Union Army, and American politicians.

Wenham, Massachusetts

There were accommodations for two full regiments of Union soldiers with barracks, mess halls, and training fields.

William Freeman Vilas

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.

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.


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.

Battle of Dry Wood Creek

The Missouri State Guard troops were successful in their campaign to force the Union Army to abandon southwestern Missouri and to concentrate on holding the Missouri Valley.

Betty Jane Gorin-Smith

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.

Bristoe Campaign

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.

Camp Jackson Affair

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.

Campbellton, Florida

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.

Charles Pickard Ware

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.

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.

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.

George Sykes

He continued his association with regulars in the early defensive positions around Washington, D.C., and then as a division commander of regulars in the Peninsula Campaign, the 2nd Division of the V Corps.

Goodman-LeGrand House

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

Harrison G. O. Blake

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.

Heck Thomas

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.

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.

Jabez Vodrey

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.

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.

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

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.

Old Jeffersonville Historic District

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.

Pendleton County, Kentucky

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

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.

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.

Robert Clayton Maffett

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.

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.