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The corps now numbered 12,300 present for duty, including the non-combatants; it contained 22 regiments of infantry and three batteries of light artillery. It was the smallest corps in the army. It was not engaged at South Mountain, although it marched in plain view of the battle that was raging on the mountain's side, ahead of its dusty columns.
The XII Corps was authorized by the National Defense Act of 1920 and was to be composed of units of the Organized Reserve located primarily in the Second Corps Area.The corps headquarters and headquarters company were constituted on 29 July 1921 in the Regular Army, allotted to the Second Corps Area, and assigned to the Fourth Army.
This is a list of regiments from the U.S. state of Louisiana that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The list of Louisiana Confederate Civil War units is shown separately.
12th Corps, Twelfth Corps, or XII Corps may refer to: 12th Army Corps (France) XII Corps (Grande Armée), a corps of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars; XII (1st Royal Saxon) Corps, a unit of the Imperial German Army; XII (Royal Saxon) Reserve Corps, a unit of the Imperial German Army; XII Corps (India) XII Corps (North Korea)
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The 12th Indiana Infantry was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana May 27 through August 27, 1862, and mustered in on August 17, 1862, for three year's service under the command of Colonel William H. Link. The regiment was attached to Cruft's Brigade, Army of Kentucky, August 30.
To this end, the Union army fought and ultimately triumphed over the efforts of the Confederate States Army. Over the course of the war, 2,128,948 men enlisted in the Union army, [2] including 178,895, or about 8.4% being colored troops; 25% of the white men who served were immigrants, and a further 18% were second-generation Americans.
The 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Raised in Pittsburgh and its surrounding counties in April 1861 for three months of service, the regiment spent its first month in training, then guarded the Northern Central Railway in Maryland until it was mustered out.