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Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War.It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
The Missouri State Militia was a federally funded state militia organization of Missouri conceived in 1861 and beginning service in 1862 during the American Civil War. It was a full-time force whose primary purpose was to conduct offensive operations against Confederate guerrillas and recruiters as well as oppose raids by regular Confederate ...
Missouri Brotherhood Militia Missouri [12] Missouri Citizens Militia: Missouri [12] [14] Missouri Militia: Missouri [15] North Country Deplorables New York [16] New York Light Foot Militia: New York [12] [17] New York Militia TM New York [12] New York Mutual Assistance Group New York [12] New Mexico Civil Guard: New Mexico [18] [19] [20] The ...
The Enrolled Missouri Militia was a state militia organization of Missouri in 1862 during the American Civil War.It was a part-time force whose primary purpose was to serve as garrison and infrastructure guards, both to augment the Unionist Missouri State Militia in defense versus raids and to free the Missouri State Militia for offensive operations versus Confederate guerrillas and recruiters.
The other federal arsenal in Missouri, Liberty Arsenal, had been captured on April 20 (1861) by secessionist militias and, concerned by widespread reports that Governor Jackson intended to use the Missouri Volunteer Militia to also attack the St. Louis Arsenal and capture its 39,000 small arms, Secretary of War Simon Cameron ordered Lyon (by ...
In Missouri after the start of the Civil War there were several competing organizations attempting to either take the state out of the Union or keep the state within it. . Home Guard companies and regiments were raised by Union supporters, particularly German-Americans, to oppose the secessionist paramilitary Minutemen, secessionist elements in the official Missouri Volunteer Militia and ...
This is a list of military units raised by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a neutral southern border state with dual competing Unionist and Confederate governments during the American Civil War, for service in the Union Army. Southern both geographically and culturally, an estimated 125,000 Kentuckians served as Union soldiers; almost quadruple ...
During the American Civil War, a department was a geographical command within the Union's military organization, usually reporting directly to the War Department. Many of the Union's departments were named after rivers or other bodies of water, such as the Department of the Potomac and the Department of the Tennessee. The geographical ...