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The XII Corps (Twelfth Army Corps) was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The corps was formed by U.S. War Department General Order of March 13, 1862, under which the corps organization of the Army of the Potomac was first created.
While Virginians led by General William Mahone attacked the 2nd Division of the XII Corps, Confederate artillery on the Orange Plank Road and at Hazel Grove sent shells screeching into Slocum's line from the rear. The XII Corps gamely held its ground, but as the hours passed, its supply of ammunition ran low.
Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
Corps badges in the American Civil War were originally worn by soldiers of the Union Army on the top of their army forage cap , left side of the hat, or over their left breast. The idea is attributed to Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny , who ordered the men in his division to sew a two-inch square of red cloth on their hats to avoid confusion on the ...
This category is for articles related to corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Pages in category "Union army corps" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
The Uniforms of the Confederate States military forces were the uniforms used by the Confederate Army and Navy during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. The uniform varied greatly due to a variety of reasons, such as location, limitations on the supply of cloth and other materials, and the cost of materials during the war.
The 12th Louisiana Infantry Regiment was a unit of volunteers recruited in Louisiana that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Formed in August 1861, the regiment served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and was unique in that there were 12 companies.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the ranks and rank insignias for the fledgling Confederate States Army had to be developed while the volunteer forces of the individual states that formed the Confederacy made up their own ranks and insignias.