Colonel of the Regiment

African Americans have had tremendous influence on the course of U.S. history and culture. Issues revolving around African Americans, such as the issue of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, were some of the most important in history. Significant African Americans such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King, were also some of the most influential Americans to ever live. I will be taking you on a whirlwind tour of some of the most important African-American heritage…

“A visionary, poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer,” that’s what Bertolt Brecht was known for. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, better known as Bertolot Brecht, was born on February 10th, 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. Brecht was born to a Protestant mother and a Catholic father. While his father worked in a paper mill, his mother made sure that he learned that bible, something that would have a lifelong effect on his writing. The break out of World War I occurred when he was only 16, he became…

was given a spot in Washington's cabinet. In 1776, he became an aide-de-camp, a personal assistant, to General Putnam. Burr later gained the title of Lieutenant Colonel of Malcom’s Regiment on January 4, 1777. Soon after, at the age of 21, Burr was the Commander of the Regiment at Orange County, New York. In June 1778, Burr led his regiment into the Battle of Monmouth. After serving four years in the army from 1775 to 1779 Burr resigned on March 3, 1779. Burr resigned because he suffered from a…

Every Man has the right to be free in this nation. Our 16th President of the United States, who fought in the civil war to give us this freedom, Abraham Lincoln. Giving his speeches for Senate, Congress and the Nation on his thoughts, beliefs, and actions on slavery, war, soldiers, and the union. Abraham Lincoln’s letters and speeches are used in this report, to discuss his opinion and thoughts of our rights for freedom. Included here are his letters, to Joshua Speed on slavery, Ephraim and…

promoted in his ranks to a second lieutenant. His regiment began fighting a war for control of Texas, also known as, the Mexican-American…

Revolutionary War Jacob Miller At 22 years of age, Jacob Miller took up arms in the fight for independence. Jacob enlisted in July of 1775 in Northampton County, in the State of Pennsylvania. It was there, that he joined the 1st Pennsylvanian Regiment and served in a company commanded by Captain Charles Craig. Jacob served with this company for one year, after which he was regularly discharged. Immediately following his discharge, Jacob enlisted in the newly formed Baxter 's Battalion.…

By 1865, bloodhounds were seen as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and northern prisoners of war. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the Southern planter class. In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the…

yet in their deployment of bloodhounds the Confederate army refused to acknowledge the change. Colonel Thomas Wentsworth Higginson, the white commander of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, United States army’s first black regiment, wrote in his memoirs that near Pocataligo, a “a ‘dog company,’ consisting of mounted rifleman with a half dozen trained bloodhounds” attacked a detachment of his regiment. The black soldiers “met these dogs with their bayonets” and “killed four or five of their…

7th cavalry regiment, led by Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer, and a mixture of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Native Americans which took place from June 25th to June 26th of 1876. Leading up to the battle, Lieutenant Colonel Custer, who once praised a Native American for his skillful way of killing a man with his pistol and then simply paying for his funeral, had…

Two Platoons of Company B, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, commanded by Captain Mike Steele, would load into four MH-60Ls to form the blocking chalks. The third platoon, with McKnight, operated the ground convoy to evacuate the prisoners and potentially all of the Rangers and Delta. TFR would enter the…