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Camden Expedition Union Order Of Battle
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Camden Expedition of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Abbreviations used Military rank * MG = Major General * BG = Brigadier General * Col = Colonel * Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel * Maj = Major * Cpt = Captain * Lt = 1st Lieutenant Union forces VII Corps (Department of Arkansas) MG Frederick Steele444 officers, 11,162 men, 30 guns (not including Clayton's command)All strength figures were "present for duty". The "aggregate present" strength was 13,754. Escort (2 officers, 88 men): * 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company D: Lt Solomon M. Tabor * 15th Illinois Cavalry, Company H: Cpt Thomas J. Beebe See also * Army of Arkansas * Arkansas in the American Civil War Notes References * Forsyth, Michael J. ''The Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War'' (Jeff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Army
During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. state, states. It proved essential to the preservation of the United States as a working, viable republic. The Union Army was made up of the permanent Regular Army (United States), regular army of the United States, but further fortified, augmented, and strengthened by the many temporary units of dedicated United States Volunteers, volunteers, as well as including those who were drafted in to service as Conscription in the United States, conscripts. To this end, the Union Army fought and ultimately triumphed over the efforts of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. Over the course of the war, 2,128,948 men enlisted in the Union Army, including 178,895 United States Colored Troops, colored troops; 25% of the white men who s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Allen Rice
Samuel Allen Rice (January 27, 1828 – July 6, 1864) was born in Cattaraugus, New York. He attended Franklin College (New Athens, Ohio) in Ohio and then graduated from Union College at Schenectady, New York in 1849. Then in 1851, he moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa in Mahaska County, where he practiced law, was county attorney, and then served as the second Attorney General of Iowa in 1856–1861 on behalf of the Republican Party. In the American Civil War, he was a colonel in the 33rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry which was mustered into U.S. Army service on October 4, 1862 within Mahaska County. He fought to open the Yazoo River for navigation, and then he commanded the 2nd Brigade, 13th Division, XIII Corps at Helena, Arkansas. In August 1863, he was appointed Brigadier General in the U.S. Volunteers. On April 30, 1864 at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas, he was mortally wounded and then was returned to his home state of Iowa. He died at Oskaloosa, Iowa, July 6, 1864 and was inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 40th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 40th Iowa Infantry was organized at Iowa City, Iowa, on November 15, 1862. The regiment was mustered out on June 5, 1865. Total strength and casualties A total of 1136 men served in the 40th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 19 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 184 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 205 fatalities. Commanders * Colonel John A. GarrettIowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1 See also * List of Iowa Civil War Units *Iowa in the American Civil War The state of Iowa played a significant role during the American Civil War in providing food, supplies, troops and officers for the Union army. Prelude to war Iowa had become the 29th state in the Union on December 28, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
43rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 43rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Koerner Regiment" after Gustav Körner, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 43rd Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 12, 1861. The regiment was mustered out on November 30, 1865. Total strength and casualties The regiment suffered 8 officers and 75 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 161 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 246 fatalities. Commanders *Colonel Julius Raith - Mortally wounded at Shiloh, died on April 9, 1862. *Colonel Adolph Englemann - Mustered out on December 31, 1864. *Lieutenant Colonel Adolph Dengler - mustered out with the regiment.http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/043-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls See also * List of Illinois Civil War Units *Illinois i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Engelmann
Adolph Engelmann (February 11, 1825 – October 5, 1890) was a farmer, lawyer, postmaster, Mexican–American War veteran, and Union Army colonel during the American Civil War. On May 18, 1866, the United States Senate confirmed his appointment as brevet brigadier general of volunteers. Biography Engelmann was born in Imsbach, then in the Kingdom of Bavaria, on February 11, 1825.Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . p. 227.Hunt, Roger D. and Brown, Jack R., ''Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue''. Olde Soldier Books, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, 1990. . p. 194. His family immigrated to the United States in 1831. He served as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Illinois Volunteers (12 months) during the Mexican–American War.Elliott, Isaac H.; Illinois Adjutant General's Office ''Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831–32, and in the Mexican War, 1846-8'' Springfield, IL: H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
77th Ohio Infantry
The 77th Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 77th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 77th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 77th Ohio Infantry was organized in Marietta, Ohio, beginning October 28, 1861, and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel Jesse Hildebrand. The regiment was attached to District of Paducah, Kentucky, to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to May 1862. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July 1862. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tennessee, to August 1862. Alton, Illinois, to August 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Arkansas Expedition, to January 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to April 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, to May 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, VII Corps, to February 1865. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIII Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, to June 1865. Depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
36th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 36th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service Early days of the regiment The Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry Regiment, US Volunteers, was one of several Midwestern volunteer regiments raised in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin in the late winter, spring and summer of 1862. Companies A and K consisted of men from Monroe County, while Companies B, C, D, E, F G, H and I were made up of men from Appanoose and Wapello Counties. A handful of additional men were mustered for the regiment from Wayne, Marion, Lucas, Davis, Lee and Van Buren Counties. The first recruits were mustered into state service as early as February 1862. The ranks were filled out with additional recruits following Lincoln's July 1862 call for 300,000 state volunteers and, by early September, the regiment was officially designated the Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry Regiment. Colonel Charles W. Kittredge of Ottumwa Iowa was placed in command. Colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
43rd Regiment Indiana Infantry
The 43rd Regiment of Indiana Infantry was a volunteer infantry unit from the U.S. state of Indiana that served in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War in the Western Theater. Though deployed at different times in support of Federal operations in Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi, the majority of its combat service took place in Arkansas. During the ill-fated Camden Expedition (part of Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign), it was one of three infantry regiments that, along with the Thirty-sixth Iowa and Seventy-seventh Ohio infantry, comprised the 2nd Brigade of the Third Division commanded by General Frederick Salomon. This division and brigade formed part of the Union VII Corps under Major-General Frederick Steele. A sizable portion of the regiment was killed or captured at the Battle of Marks' Mills on 25 April 1864; the prisoners were sent south to Camp Ford in Tyler, Texas, where eleven of them perished. The remaining elements were transferred northward, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Eberhard Salomon
Charles Eberhard Salomon (June 24, 1824January 9, 1881) was a German American immigrant, surveyor, and civil engineer. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and received an honorary brevet to brigadier general after the war. He was a brother of Wisconsin's wartime governor Edward Salomon. Biography Salomon was born on June 24, 1824, in Prussia. He moved with his three brothers to the United States in the 1840s, settling in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. One brother, Frederick, became a brigadier general in the Union Army. Another brother, Edward, became Governor of Wisconsin. Salomon married Alvina Pitzman and they had three children. He died on January 9, 1881, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1927, a monument to Salomon and his three brothers was erected at the Manitowoc County Courthouse. Career Salomon and his brothers, Frederick and Herman, joined the Army in 1861 after the outbreak of the Civil War. Charles Salomon was appointed captain of the 5th Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 9th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 9th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was raised at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service October 26, 1861. It consisted predominantly of recent immigrants from German-speaking countries. The 9th Wisconsin was first ordered to Leavenworth, Kansas, on 22 January 1862. It participated in an expedition into Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in summer 1862. Afterwards, the regiment operated in Missouri and Arkansas, where it took part in: the First Battle of Newtonia, Arkansas, on September 30, 1862; the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 7, 1862; and the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas, on April 30, 1864. The 9th Wisconsin's commander and most of the regiment's personnel mustered out on December 3, 1864, upon expiration of their term of service. The remaining personnel were reorganized into a four-compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
33rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 33rd Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 33rd Iowa Infantry was organized at Oskaloosa, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on October 4, 1862. The regiment was mustered out on August 15, 1865. Total strength and casualties A total of 1242 men served in the 33rd Iowa at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 3 officers and 65 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 215 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 284 fatalities. Commanders * Colonel Samuel A. Rice * Lieutenant Colonel Cyrus H. MackeyIowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1 See also * List of Iowa Civil War Units *Iowa in the American Civil War The state of Iowa played a significant role during the American Civil War in providing food, supplies, troops and of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hart Benton (Iowa Politician)
Thomas Hart Benton (5 September 1815 – 10 April 1879) was an American politician. Born on 5 September 1815 in Williamson County, Tennessee, Thomas Hart Benton was named after his uncle, who served in the Tennessee Senate, and represented Missouri on the United States Senate and House of Representatives. The younger T. H. Benton attended Huntington Academy and Marion College in Missouri. In 1839, Benton moved to Dubuque, Iowa, and found work as a teacher. After ending his teaching career, he became a merchant. Politically, Benton was affiliated with the Democratic Party. He was elected to the Iowa Senate from District 17, and served as a member of the First Iowa General Assembly from 30 November 1846 to 3 December 1848. He stepped down from the state senate to serve six years as Iowa's first Superintendent of Public Instruction. At the time, that office was held concurrently with the position of secretary of the Iowa Board of Regents. Later, Benton moved to Council Bluffs. As t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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