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The 26th New York Cavalry Regiment was a volunteer cavalry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] It was organized under special authority of the War Department, to serve on the northern frontier of New England and New York for one year.
The Army of the Frontier was a Union army that served in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War. It fought in several minor engagements in Arkansas, Indian Territory, and Kansas. In June 1863 the Army was discontinued but many of its regiments were formed into the District of the Frontier.
The American Civil War was the first 'railroad war' in history, due in no small part to the fact that in 1860 the United States had over 30,000 miles of tracks, more than any other country. The typical American freight train was composed of a 4-4-0 steam locomotive pulling 17 boxcars , each capable of carrying 5 to 10 tons of freight.
The Civil War by Ken Burns (first broadcast on PBS from September 23 to Thursday, September 27, 1990) The Great Battles of the Civil War (TV series 1994) Sherman's March (1986) Civil War Combat (TV Series 2000-2003) Gettysburg: 3 days of Destiny (2004) [citation needed] 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed Women (2006), TV, recounting the Battle ...
Stagecoach West is an American Western television series about stagecoach drivers on the American frontier. It stars Wayne Rogers , Richard Eyer , and Robert Bray , and originally aired on ABC . It premiered on October 4, 1960 and ended on June 27, 1961, with a total of 38 episodes over the course of one season.
Fort Rice (Lakota: Psíŋ Otȟúŋwahe; "Wild Rice Village") was a frontier military fort in the 19th century named for American Civil War General James Clay Rice in what was then Dakota Territory and what is now North Dakota. [1] The 50th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment became the garrison in October 1865.
Military units and formations of the United States in ... (9 C, 22 P) P. Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War (9 C, 26 ... Media in category "American ...
The name "War Between the States" is inscribed on the USMC War Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The name was personally ordered by Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., the 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps. A sheet of the 1994 stamps. Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to the Civil War as "the four-year War Between the States". [12]