List of District of Columbia Civil War regiments

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The following is a list of Union Army regiments from the District of Columbia during the American Civil War. A total of 15,131 men fought in two regiments and four battalions of infantry and one regiment of cavalry. [1] Other independent companies were raised during the war for local defense, including 33 companies of infantry and one company of cavalry raised from the District militia from April to July 1861. [2]

Union Army Land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War

During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states. Also known as the Federal Army, it proved essential to the preservation of the United States of America as a working, viable republic.

American Civil War Civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865

The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The Civil War is the most studied and written about episode in U.S. history. Primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people, war broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated as the President of the United States. The loyalists of the Union in the North proclaimed support for the Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South, who advocated for states' rights to uphold slavery.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NOTES
1st District of Columbia Cavalry Regiment
1st District of Columbia Infantry Regiment
2nd District of Columbia Infantry Regiment
2nd District of Columbia Infantry Battalion
3rd District of Columbia Infantry Battalion
5th District of Columbia Infantry Battalion
8th District of Columbia Infantry Battalion
Owen's Cavalry Company (Militia)
Boyd's Infantry Company (Militia)
Callan's Infantry Company (Militia)
Carrington's Infantry Company (Militia)
Clarke's Infantry Company (Militia)
Cross' Infantry Company (Militia)
Degge's Infantry Company (Militia)
Elder's Infantry Company (Militia)
Ferguson's Infantry Company (Militia)
Fletcher's Infantry Company (Militia)
Foxwell's Infantry Company (Militia)
Gerhart's Infantry Company (Militia)
Goddard's Infantry Company (Militia)
Grinnell's Infantry Company (Militia)
Kelly's Infantry Company (Militia)
King's Infantry Company (Militia)
Knight's Infantry Company (Militia)
Kyrzanowski's Infantry Company (Militia)
Loeffler's Infantry Company (Militia)
Mark's Infantry Company (Militia)
Miller's Infantry Company (Militia)
Morgan's Infantry Company (Militia)
Morrison's Infantry Company (Militia)
M'Blair's Infantry Company (Militia)
M'Clelland's Infantry Company (Militia)
M'Dermott's Infantry Company (Militia)
M'Kim's Infantry Company (Militia)
Nally's Infantry Company (Militia)
Powell's Infantry Company (Militia)
Rodier's Infantry Company (Militia)
Rutherford's Infantry Company (Militia)
Smead's Infantry Company (Militia)
Thistleton's Infantry Company (Militia)
Williams' Infantry Company (Militia)

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References

  1. ↑ Civil War in the East.
  2. ↑ The Civil War Archive

Bibliography

Frederick H. Dyer Soldier, writer

Frederick Henry Dyer served as a drummer boy in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he wrote A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion – a complete record of every regiment formed under the Union Army, their histories, and the battles they fought in – taking forty years to compile.

The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially-based system of numbering cataloging records in the Library of Congress in the United States. It has nothing to do with the contents of any book, and should not be confused with Library of Congress Classification.

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