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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.
A plate showing the uniform of a U.S. Army first sergeant, circa 1858, influenced by the French army. The military uniforms of the Union Army in the American Civil War were widely varied and, due to limitations on supply of wool and other materials, based on availability and cost of materials. [1]
An excellent photograph showing the Union Army white Diamond shaped III Corps Badges on the forage caps Corps badges in the American Civil War were originally worn by soldiers of the Union Army on the top of their army forage cap ( kepi ), left side of the hat, or over their left breast.
With the aid of the Union army, and support in Congress, a Unionist government in Wheeling was able to create a new state, West Virginia, in 1863. The new state government however had control of no more than half its territory. [102] The Union army remained in West Virginia until 1869, dealing with unrest and resistance to the new state. [103]
This is a list of American Civil War brevet generals that served the Union Army.This list of brevet major generals or brevet brigadier generals currently contains a section which gives the names of officers who held lower actual or substantive grades (often referred to as ranks) in the Union Army, were not promoted to full actual or substantive grade generals during or immediately after the ...
The meaning of the jayhawker term evolved in the opening year of the American Civil War. When Charles Jennison , one of the territorial-era jayhawkers, was authorized to raise a regiment of cavalry to serve in the Union army, he characterized the unit as the "Independent Kansas Jay-Hawkers" on a recruiting poster.
Strategic operations of the Union army in the American Civil War (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Union army" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The XV Army Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.It served in the Army of the Tennessee under Maj. Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.It was commanded by Sherman in the siege of Vicksburg and then by Maj. Gen. John A. Logan in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.