American Civil War

[goldman]

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[Saint]

interesting pics thanks Goldman

[RGRBOX]

Excellant pics Goldmann..

I've been to the Anteitem Bridge.. sad place.. the water is about a foot deep. But the Union Army wouldn't give up charging over the bridge. I think they made three different charges and lost many men. The Rebels had the high ground and just kicked ass. I remember going there about 15 years ago with my German wife. We were walking away from the bridge and I looked over my shoulder, I saw a tall thin man, dressed in black with a tall black hat, he held his head down fasing the bridge. When I reached the top of the hill above the bridge from the rebel positions he was gone. I was soo sad walking around that place and picturing all of those dead Americans sadly lost in the corn fields of that battle..

[szr]

Still our costliest war.

Thanks for the pictures, Goldman.

[Sayeret]

Awesome pictures, some of the best I've ever seen on this forum. It's always cool to see pictures as old as the ones posted.

[Denat]

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Looking at the uniforms and especially the hats instead of Civil War style kepi's I believe that those photos are from the spanish - american war ?

[RGRBOX]

Correct...

[MaDuce]

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He is 1st SFOD

[RGRBOX]

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He is 1st SFOD

****.. I was waiting for that to come up... I though I saw a 101 AB patch on his sholder...

[[AFSOC]]

American Civil war....another war that interests me greatly, took sometime studying it in American history class :)

learned a lot

[Ratamacue]

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Looking at the uniforms and especially the hats instead of Civil War style kepi's I believe that those photos are from the spanish - american war ?
By 1898, we were using bolt-action weapons, not muzzle loaders.

[RGRBOX]

http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/Trapdoor.JPG
http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/Muzzleloading.JPG
http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/1898Krag.JPG
Looking at the uniforms and especially the hats instead of Civil War style kepi's I believe that those photos are from the spanish - american war ?
By 1898, we were using bolt-action weapons, not muzzle loaders.

Yes.. but in 1942 we were using M1 Garands, and still using Springfields.. bolt action...

[goldman]

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Looking at the uniforms and especially the hats instead of Civil War style kepi's I believe that those photos are from the spanish - american war ?

I kind of was thinking that too, then i asked some an american as a matter of fact he said they are from civil war

[SeanAshi]

Just imagne the logistics back in that day what a pain in the arse.

[speckfire]

Excellent pics

[MEGR]

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A very distant relative.

[SocScout]

Got any pictures of John Mosby and his ranger group? Read about them they did a lot of damage for only having 29 men in the group.

[FallenAngel]

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Looking at the uniforms and especially the hats instead of Civil War style kepi's I believe that those photos are from the spanish - american war ?

I kind of was thinking that too, then i asked some an american as a matter of fact he said they are from civil war

Not all Civil War units wore Kepis, especially on the Confederate side. Only rich officers could afford it. The rank and file did with what they brought from home or stole off the dead.

As for logistics....yeah, talk about hell. I believe at one point during the war the ordiance department was tasked with supplying something like 20 different types of small arms ammunition alone, not counting crew served pieces (guns, howitzers, mortars, etc.)

The price in blood was gigantic. All tolled, somewhere between 650,000-675,000 American soldiers died in the conflict.

The costliest battle was *****sburg. Between 51,000 and 53,000 killed in three days. (by comparison, the US lost 58,000 men in Vietnam over 11 years).

The costliest day of the civil war was at Antietam. 27,000 dead in about 10 hours.

At the battle of Cold Harbor close the end of the war a Union advance on a Confederate trenchline yielded 7,000 union dead in 15 minutes.

[FallenAngel]

Got any pictures of John Mosby and his ranger group? Read about them they did a lot of damage for only having 29 men in the group.

http://www.mosbysrangers.com/