Germany, and France allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia, just four months after it became public knowledge that Hitler intended to occupy all of that country. The pact prevented
Herdegen has finally rectified this historical anomaly with his The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory. Composed originally of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin, 19th Indiana, and Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artiller...
In contrast, sources linked to the 1862 battle cite medical activity at John Dogan’s farm. Union forces occupied Dogan Ridge from 28 to 30 August (Roemer1897; Hennessy1985,1999). On the 29th, artillery batteries assumed position on the rise near the Dogan residence, setting up in “a fine...
John's exchange eventually went through, and John was finally back with the 15th Kentucky in July of 1863. He thenwas detailed for duty with Battery G of the 1stOhio Artillery on September 22, 1863, immediately after the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest fight in the war's western thea...
Pindall's battalion drove in the Federal skirmish line and led Parson's brigade in the assault on "Battery C" atop Graveyard Hill, pinning down the artillery crews with their fire. Once the brigade charged forward, it quickly overcame the defenders and drove them into Helena. The brigade enj...
Once I went up and sat down in the rear of a battery of light artillery to watch the effect of the firing, and the Capt. drove me off with terrible oaths. But I went around a small farm house and crept back again, and saw the grapeshot scatter the “rebs.” And so I went on ...
were needed to move the heavy artillery but they required many men to manage them. These numbers of a battery varied as the Civil War progressed and battle attrition took its toll on men, horses, and equipment. Overall, the North with its industrial strength had more artillery than the ...
Field artillery in the American Civil War refers to the important artillery weapons, equipment, and practices used by the Artillery branch to support the infantry and cavalry forces in the field. It does not include siege artillery, use of artillery in fixed fortifications, or coastal or naval ...
United States Regiments and Batteries Unit history timelines of the infantry, cavalry, sharpshooters, field artillery and heavy artillery that served in the eastern theater. Confederate States Armies Organization of the Confederate armies in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War for each month, includi...
war but ceded a significant part of Czechoslovakia to German rule. As the American military watched things unfold overseas and noted the advances worldwide in war technology and artillery reach, it adjusted its defense strategy to focus on protecting the Western Hemisphere from enemy fire nad ...