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Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): article 1
number of troops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sent the most hardy and robust men, the first Minnesota regiment being the most splendid body of physical soldiers in the whole volunteer service. This immense force of volunteers consists of 880 engineers, 59 regiments of cavalry, 6 regiments and 10 batteries of artillery, and 558 regiments of infantry. A recent addition to this force consists of one regiment of lancers of 1,200 men, and two batteries of marine artillery--numbering in toto 642,237 men, composing the vol
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): article 1
oops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sent the most hardy and robust men, the first Minnesota regiment being the most splendid body of physical soldiers in the whole volunteer service. This immense force of volunteers consists of 880 engineers, 59 regiments of cavalry, 6 regiments and 10 batteries of artillery, and 558 regiments of infantry. A recent addition to this force consists of one regiment of lancers of 1,200 men, and two batteries of marine artillery--numbering in toto 642,237 men, composing the volunteer forces
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): article 1
ry, 20,380 artillery, and 8,325 riflemen. Of the States furnishing the largest number of troops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sent the most hardy and robust men, the first Minnesota regiment being the most splendid body of physical soldiers in the whole volunteer service. This immense force of volunteers consists of 880 engineers, 59 regiments of cavalry, 6 regiments and 10 batteries of artillery, and 558 regiments of infantry. A recent addition to this force consists of one regiment of lancers of 1,200 men, and two b
Nevada (Nevada, United States) (search for this): article 1
ell as from private sources, which we give as follows: The number of three months men in the field up to August 1st was 77,815. The number of volunteers for the war is 640,637, which includes many of the three months men. Of this force, there are 557,208 infantry, 54,654 cavalry, 20,380 artillery, and 8,325 riflemen. Of the States furnishing the largest number of troops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sent the most hardy and robust men, the first Minnesota regiment being the most splendid body of physical soldiers in the
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): article 1
s of the War Department as well as from private sources, which we give as follows: The number of three months men in the field up to August 1st was 77,815. The number of volunteers for the war is 640,637, which includes many of the three months men. Of this force, there are 557,208 infantry, 54,654 cavalry, 20,380 artillery, and 8,325 riflemen. Of the States furnishing the largest number of troops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sent the most hardy and robust men, the first Minnesota regiment being the most splendid body
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): article 1
,654 cavalry, 20,380 artillery, and 8,325 riflemen. Of the States furnishing the largest number of troops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sent the most hardy and robust men, the first Minnesota regiment being the most splendid body of physical soldiers in the whole volunteer service. This immense force of volunteers consists of 880 engineers, 59 regiments of cavalry, 6 regiments and 10 batteries of artillery, and 558 regiments of infantry. A recent addition to this force consists of one regiment of lancers of 1,200 men
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): article 1
ng the largest number of troops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regRhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sent the most hardy and robust men, the first Minnesota regiment being the most splendid body of physical soldiers in the whole volunteer service. This immense force of volunteers consists of 880 engineers, 59 regiments of cavalry, 6 regiments and 10 batteries of artillery, and 558 regiments of infantry. A recent addition to this force consists of one regiment of lancers of 1,200 men, and two batteries of marine artillery--numbering in toto 642,237 men, comp
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 1
orces. The majority of this large force is well drilled, well armed, and equipped, and ready for service, many of the regiments being officered by graduates of West Point, and officers of the regular army, who hold a regular commission as well as one in the volunteers. Uniforms and equipments of the army. The uniforms anost effective weapon. Many of the western regiments have been recently armed with the Enfield rifle. Discipline of the army. The military education of West Point officers has been a source of great benefit to the volunteer as well as the regular service.--The severe discipline and study which is undergone at West Point bWest Point by the young cadet, fits him, if he graduates, to hold not only an honorable position in the army proper, but in any position to which he may be called as a civilian. Having, of course, undergone a rigid discipline, he is ready, when he joins his company, to enforce the same discipline upon others under him; and the stringent rule
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): article 1
y be explained to the reader by the following statistics, made up in part from the archives of the War Department as well as from private sources, which we give as follows: The number of three months men in the field up to August 1st was 77,815. The number of volunteers for the war is 640,637, which includes many of the three months men. Of this force, there are 557,208 infantry, 54,654 cavalry, 20,380 artillery, and 8,325 riflemen. Of the States furnishing the largest number of troops, Pennsylvania stands first, having furnish 107 regiments of troops; New York, 100; Ohio, 81; Illinois, 80. New Mexico and Nevada have furnished the smallest in number, each of them sending only 1,000 men. Little Rhode Island has sent forth the greatest number in proportion to her size, for she has furnished four batteries of artillery and three regiments of infantry, making 5,898 men. Wisconsin, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Ohio have furnished the best equipped regiments. Minnesota and Vermont have sen
Garde Lafayette (search for this): article 1
his is a rich crimson sash worn around the waist, which, with the scarlet fez with blue tassel, or the parti-coloured silk turban, presents to the eye a pleasing effect. The Berdan sharp-shooters wear a curious dark green sack — scarcely a sack — in fact, more like a cavalry jacket, trimmed with a light-green cord, wide blue bag-trowsers, and russet leggins.--They wear a cap of the old French infantry pattern, surmounted with a hen's feather of dark green. The 55th New York regiment, (Garde Lafayette,) the members of whom are all Frenchmen, wear the uniform of the French infantry of the line — blue frock coat trimmed with scarlet, scarlet pants, and the French full dress infantry cap, with the double scarlet pomnon. They have recently adopted a gray uniform overcoat, trimmed with scarlet cord, which gives them a gay and imposing appearance. The D'Epeneuil Zouaves, a magnificent body of men, dress in the picturesque uniform of the Turcos, while the 88th New York (Irish brigade) wea<
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