Colonel of the Regiment

the fight against them by not yet surrendering. Another person who made a powerful speech about not giving up was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain when he addressed 120 mutineers. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Colonel of the 20th Maine Regiment during the Civil War. On June 29th, 1863 Colonel…

September 28, 1874 when a few U.S. Armed force regiments under Ranald S. Mackenzie assaulted an extensive place to stay of Plains Indians in Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle of Texas. In the post-summer of 1874, Quahada Comanche, Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kiowa warriors drove by Lone Wolf left their reservations and searched for refuge in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle. There they had been gathering sustenance and supplies for the winter. Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, driving the…

Imagine, smoke in the air. Cloudy and gray outside, with sounds of carts being carried across uneven gravel. The shouts of people talking about politics, economy, and most important, the revolution. You can hear people yelling and disagreeing with others opinions. You are standing in the middle of the rocky road looking around, watching people’s actions, watching slaves work hard, watching women carry babies and holding their children’s hands. Kids leather shoes, clapping against the road, with…

a young man quickly. "He was educated at the Westminster School,"(Stoll, 1). Not long after finishing his schooling, Thomas set out to join the army. Within the army, there were many regiments. Thomas worked to transfer or upgrade himself through these regiments, leading to his eventual promotion to lieutenant colonel of the British Army in 1740. Close to five years after his promotion, in the year 1745, Thomas Gage was assigned to North America for service in the French…

House,” on the Pumunkey River in Virginia. Daniel Custis was 20 years older than Martha; he passed away in 1757, leaving Martha behind as a widow and mother of two children at age 26. In 1759 she married a second time to Colonel George Washington, commander of the First Virginia Regiment in the French and Indian War. Although there is no known “premarital” as modern time would liken it, the immense inheritance that would come to Washington as a result of his successful courting of Martha Custis…

early morning of November 29, 1864, elements of the first and third Colorado volunteer regiments surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. That day, more than 150 Cheyennes and Arapahoes, the vast majority of them being women, children, and elderly men nominally under U.S. protection, were slaughtered by the Colorado volunteer regiments. Today, I was invited by the National Council on Public History to deliver a…

The Monmouth being one of the more famous Battles that help revolutionize the Artillery world. These Soldiers were being led by Colonel Thomas Proctor. William Hays enlisted in the Continental ARMY during the Revolutionary war to serve his country as a cannon Gunner. A Cannon Gunner is a Soldier in the Artillery branch of the military in William Hays case was the ARMY. The Gunner…

Soldiers brought fiddles, guitars, and banjos to pass the time. The United States made it a mandatory regulation that ever regiment of infantry and artillery must have a brass band with twentyfour members and cavalry must have sixteen members. Camp was thought as a safe place, rarely were there attacks on a camp, Dealton Cooper of the 10th New York Artillery recalled “I was pleased…

He was promoted to second lieutenant of artillery in a training school for young artillery officers, in the regiment of La Fere. In 1789, Pasquale Paoli was asked to return to Corsica by the national assembly in order to establish a constitutional monarchy. Napoleon asked for leave to return home and join Paoli’s group, but was rejected because of Carlo’s act of…

Catherine Moore Barry Catherine Moore Barry also known as Kate Barry was born on October 22, 1752 around Spartanburg, South Carolina to Professor Charles and Mary Moore. Kate was the oldest of ten children. At the age of 15 Kate married Andrew Berry. The newlywed couple moved to Walnut Grove, South Carolina, where the couple began their family. They had three children together. Meanwhile her husband Andrew Berry joined the colonist in the war against Great Britain where he became a Captain in…