What and which regt?

30th_il · #1 01-11-2005, 10:52 PM

This is just a fun question. If you could pick a regt or brigade that you could be in during the civil war...what would it be and why? This includes infantry, cavalry, artillery, navy. I suppose I should start...and though I am a western theater man by heart, I would have to say that I would love to have been in EP Alexander's artillery at Gburg.....what a moment!

ole · #2 01-11-2005, 11:09 PM

Matt:

Where my liver not so lilylike, the Iron Brigade would have to be first choice. Those folks had ample reason to be pround and earned the accolades they had.

Ole

bill_torrens · #3 01-12-2005, 09:26 AM

I've always had a great fondness for the 1st Maryland Infantry Bn. (C.S.A.)

They enjoyed their happiest day at Front Royal during the '62 Valley Campaign, when they helped to gobble up most of the 1st Maryland Infantry (U.S.A.) A pleasant evening ensued during which they unmercifully teased and taunted their friends and relatives in the ranks of the prisoners.

larry_cockerham · #4 01-12-2005, 01:46 PM

Put me down for Forrest's Escort. At least he knew where he was going, what he was doing, and what was likely to happen when he arrived.

redfish · #5 01-12-2005, 02:49 PM

One of Mosby's Ranger's.

hoosier · #6 01-12-2005, 04:34 PM

Matt, you son-of-a-gun, you would have been shooting at my great-granddad!

I would wish I could have been a member of his regiment, the 16th Vermont Infantry, just so I could see what his experiences were like.

johan_steele · #7 01-12-2005, 08:15 PM

3rd Iowa if in the west... regardless of the short life expectancy. Failing that the 4th MN has an intriguing history as well.

In the east... I've gotta go w/ the Iron Brigade... those men needed wheel barrows to haul theirs around after the war.

CS... 4th Alabama simply because it was the first CS unit I was exposed to in re-enacting and upon learning a little more about their history... I think I would like to have been able to have claimed after the war that I survived Gettysburg AND Chickamagua. Truly a been there done that unit.

1st_maine_trooper · #8 01-12-2005, 08:25 PM

1st Maine Cavalry, why naturally.

Dave

manofdreds · #9 02-07-2005, 06:58 AM

I would've been awe stricken if I was in any of the USCT regiments that participated in the Battle if the Crater. Imagine the whole trench warfare scenario, witnessing the explosion, charging, then seeing the carnage in the crater, then the hand to hand combat that ensued.

rivrrat · #10 02-07-2005, 01:22 PM

I would have helped Quantrill burn Lawrence. My family lived in the burnt zone. Mosby just had a better press agent.