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==1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry (May-August 1861)== |
==1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry (May-August 1861)== |
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When the Civil War began in [[April]] [[1861]], there were only about 16,000 men in the [[U.S. Army]], and many Southern soldiers and officers were already resigning and joining the new [[Confederate States Army]]. With this drastic shortage of men in the army, [[Abraham Lincoln|President Abraham Lincoln]] called on the states to raise a force of 75,000 men for three months to put down the [[insurrection]] in the South. Accordingly, the 1st Delaware was raised at [[Wilmington, Delaware]] on [[May 22]], [[1861]]. The regiment was attached to the command of [[Major General]] [[John Adams Dix|John Dix]] ('Dix's Command", Department of the Potomac) and assigned to duty along the line of the [[Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]]. The regiment mustered out on [[August 30]] [[1861]]. |
When the Civil War began in [[April]] [[1861]], there were only about 16,000 men in the [[U.S. Army]], and many Southern soldiers and officers were already resigning and joining the new [[Confederate States Army]]. With this drastic shortage of men in the army, [[Abraham Lincoln|President Abraham Lincoln]] called on the states to raise a force of 75,000 men for three months to put down the [[insurrection]] in the South. Accordingly, the 1st Delaware was raised at [[Wilmington, Delaware]] on [[May 22]], [[1861]]. The regiment was attached to the command of [[Major General]] [[John Adams Dix|John Dix]] ('Dix's Command", Department of the Potomac) and assigned to duty along the line of the [[Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]]. The regiment mustered out on [[August 30]] [[1861]]. |
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==1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry (September 1861 - July 1865)== |
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[[Category: Delaware Civil War regiments]] |
[[Category: Delaware Civil War regiments]] |
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Revision as of 19:02, 9 October 2007
The 1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry was a United States volunteer infantry regiment raised for Union Army service in the American Civil War. [1]
1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry (May-August 1861)
When the Civil War began in April 1861, there were only about 16,000 men in the U.S. Army, and many Southern soldiers and officers were already resigning and joining the new Confederate States Army. With this drastic shortage of men in the army, President Abraham Lincoln called on the states to raise a force of 75,000 men for three months to put down the insurrection in the South. Accordingly, the 1st Delaware was raised at Wilmington, Delaware on May 22, 1861. The regiment was attached to the command of Major General John Dix ('Dix's Command", Department of the Potomac) and assigned to duty along the line of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. The regiment mustered out on August 30 1861.
1st Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry (September 1861 - July 1865)
- ^ "Union Regimental Index".
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