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3rd Rhode Island Cavalry
The 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment briefly served dismounted as infantry in the defenses of New Orleans, June–September, 1864. Service The 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in September 12, 1863, for a three-year enlistment. On January 14, 1864, the 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry (by this time it was battalion strength) was transferred to 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry. The regiment was attached to Defenses of New Orleans, Department of the Gulf, to March 1864. 5th Brigade, Cavalry Division, Department of the Gulf, to June 1864. Defenses of New Orleans, Louisiana, to October 1864. District of LaFourche, Department of the Gulf, to November 1865. The 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry mustered out of service November 29, 1865. Detailed service 1st Battalion moved to New Orleans, La., December 31, 1863, to January 14, 1864 aboard the steamer '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Rhode Island Cavalry
The 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Service The 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered on November 21, 1862, for a three-year enlistment. The regiment never reached full strength. The regiment was attached to 1st Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to July 1863. Cavalry Brigade, XIX Corps, to August 1863. Ordered to New Orleans, Louisiana, and served duty there until March 1863. Moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 6–7, 1863. Participated in the operations against Port Hudson, March 7–27. Moved to Algiers, then to Berwick April 1–9. Operations in western Louisiana April 9-May 14. Teche Campaign April 11–20. Franklin April 14. Near Washington May 1. Expedition from Opelousas to Alexandria and Simsport May 5–18. Operations about Monett's Plantation and on Bayou Sara Road May 18–19. Moved to Bayou Sara, then to Port Hudson May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Units And Formations Disestablished In 1865
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct military uniform. It may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms ''armed forces'' and ''military'' are often treated as synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include both its military and other paramilitary forces. There are various forms of irregular military forces, not belonging to a recognized state; though they share many attributes with regular military forces, they are less often referred to as simply ''military''. A nation's military may f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Units And Formations Established In 1863
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct military uniform. It may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms ''armed forces'' and ''military'' are often treated as synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include both its military and other paramilitary forces. There are various forms of irregular military forces, not belonging to a recognized state; though they share many attributes with regular military forces, they are less often referred to as simply ''military''. A nation's military may f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhode Island In The American Civil War
The state of Rhode Island during the American Civil War remained loyal to the Union, as did the other states of New England. Rhode Island furnished 25,236 fighting men to the Union Army, of which 1,685 died. The state used its industrial capacity to supply the Union Army with the materials needed to win the war. Rhode Island's continued growth and modernization led to the creation of an urban mass transit system and improved health and sanitation programs. Rhode Island during the war Fort Adams near Newport was used temporarily as the United States Naval Academy. In May 1861, the Academy was moved to Newport from Annapolis, Maryland due to concerns about the political sympathies of the Marylanders, many of whom were suspected of supporting the Confederate States of America. In September, the Academy moved to the Atlantic House hotel in Newport and remained there for the rest of the war. In 1862, Fort Adams became the headquarters and recruit depot for the 15th U.S. Infantry Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rhode Island Civil War Units
List of military units raised by the state of Rhode Island during the American Civil War. Artillery units Cavalry Infantry Miscellaneous * Independent Company Hospital GuardsThis unit was organized at Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island on December 6, 1862. It mustered out of service on August 26, 1865. Presumably the unit was organized as infantry to guard both Union and Confederate soldiers who were recuperating in Rhode Island hospitals. No other information about this unit has been located and may require original research in the Rhode Island State Archives. See also * Rhode Island in the American Civil War * Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State * United States Colored Troops Notes {{reflist Units and formations of the Union Army from Rhode Island, * Rhode Island-related lists, Civil War regiments Lists of military units and formations of the American Civil War, Rhode Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Metropolis (1863 Ship)
''Western Metropolis'' was a wooden Paddle steamer, side-wheel steamship built in 1863. She was chartered by the Quartermaster Corps (United States Army), quartermaster corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War to provide logistical support. As a transport ship, she was unarmed, but nonetheless captured a Confederate States of America, Confederate blockade runner. After the war, she was in commercial service for another ten years. Notably, she made five trans-Atlantic voyages and brought several thousand immigrants to the United States from Northern Europe. She was idled in 1875, and had her engine removed in 1878. Her ultimate fate is unknown. Construction and characteristics ''Western Metropolis'' was commissioned by the Benner and Brown Company, whose principal owners were N. George Griswold, Hiram Benner, and William H. Wall. She was to supply the Union Army's need for additional seaborne shipping to support military forces along the Confederate coast. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of The Gulf
The Department of the Gulf was a command of the United States Army in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. History United States Army (Civil War) Creation The department was constituted on February 23, 1862 when the United States War Department issued General Orders No. 20; the department consisted of "...all of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico west of Pensacola harbor, and so much of the Gulf States as may be occupied by the forces under Major General B.F. Butler." On March 20, 1862, Butler activated his command at Ship Island, Mississippi by issuing General Orders No. 1 (Department of the Gulf) assuming his new command. Activities United States Navy's West Gulf Blockading Squadron captured New Orleans, Louisiana on April 29, 1862, Butler moved his headquarters to New Orleans on 1 May. The department, sometimes referred to as the Army of the Gulf, became a union occupying force in the region. Commanders *Major G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War, the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States led by President Abraham Lincoln. It was opposed by the secessionist Confederate States of America (CSA), informally called "the Confederacy" or "the South". The Union is named after its declared goal of preserving the United States as a constitutional union. "Union" is used in the U.S. Constitution to refer to the founding formation of the people, and to the states in union. In the context of the Civil War, it has also often been used as a synonym for "the northern states loyal to the United States government;" in this meaning, the Union consisted of 20 free states and five border states. The Union Army was a new formation comprising mostly state units, together with units from the regular U.S. Army. The border states were essential as a supply base for the Union invasion of the Confederacy, and Lincoln realized he could not win the war without control of them, especially Maryla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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