Best Unit Nicknames

Mr. King

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What are the best regiment, brigade, and division names?

Buck Tail Brigade
Black Hats
Stonewall Brigade
Laurel Brigade
Lightning Brigade
Wheat's Tigers
Louisiana Tigers
Pelican Regiment
Crescent Regiment
Light Division
Excelsior Brigade
Wolverines

I know it sounds corny, but I am building my army on Ultimate Generals, and I need good names for my "elite" units.
 
What are the best regiment, brigade, and division names?

Buck Tail Brigade
Black Hats
Stonewall Brigade
Laurel Brigade
Lightning Brigade
Wheat's Tigers
Louisiana Tigers
Pelican Regiment
Crescent Regiment
Light Division
Excelsior Brigade
Wolverines

I know it sounds corny, but I am building my army on Ultimate Generals, and I need good names for my "elite" units.

I believe I might have the winner :

A Confederate home-guard unit from Hawkins County, east Tennessee, organized by a Captain Jacob Miller, known as

"The Beech Creek Jerkers"
 
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"Hoosiers". The nickname no one can explain.....
Guess what:

The best evidence, however, suggests that "Hoosier" was a term of contempt and opprobrium common in the upland South and used to denote a rustic, a bumpkin, a countryman, a roughneck, a hick or an awkward, uncouth or unskilled fellow. Although the word's derogatory meaning has faded, it can still be heard in its original sense, albeit less frequently than its cousins "Cracker" and "Redneck."

From the South "Hoosier" moved north and westward with the people into the Ohio Valley, where it was applied at first to the presumably unsophisticated inhabitants of Southern Indiana. Later it expanded to include all residents of the state and gradually lost its original, potent connotation of coarseness in manners, appearance and intellect.

As for the word itself, it may derive from the Saxon word "hoo" meaning promontory or cliff or ridge or rise or hill. Jacob Piatt Dunn, a diligent scholar of the word, believes a Saxon beginning, and such a meaning survives in various place names in England. There is some sense in the notion, too, that those who applied the insult and those to whom it was applied (and who understood it) came primarily from British stock.

www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/internet/extra/hoosier.html
 
Ooh I love unit nicknames:

Co. C of the Cherokee Georgia Legion - "Cherokee Lincoln Killers"
Co. A of the 23rd Georgia - "Bartow Yankee Killers"
Co. C of the 61st Georgia - "Wiregrass Riflemen"
Co. I of the 19th Georgia - "Villa Rica Gold Diggers"
Co. H of the 41st Georgia - "Wool Hat Boys"
Co. E of the 59th Georgia - "Cotton Planters"
Co. C of the 2nd Georgia Cav - "Sidney Johnson Avengers"
Co. B of the 6th Georgia - "Lookout Dragoons"
Co. G of the 22nd Georgia - "Fireside Defenders"
and finally...
Co. F of the 11th Georgia - "Mrs. Joe Brown's Boys"
 
Company names are crazy at times. "Racoon Roughs"
Ooh I love unit nicknames:

Co. C of the Cherokee Georgia Legion - "Cherokee Lincoln Killers"
Co. A of the 23rd Georgia - "Bartow Yankee Killers"
Co. C of the 61st Georgia - "Wiregrass Riflemen"
Co. I of the 19th Georgia - "Villa Rica Gold Diggers"
Co. H of the 41st Georgia - "Wool Hat Boys"
Co. E of the 59th Georgia - "Cotton Planters"
Co. C of the 2nd Georgia Cav - "Sidney Johnson Avengers"
Co. B of the 6th Georgia - "Lookout Dragoons"
Co. G of the 22nd Georgia - "Fireside Defenders"
and finally...
Co. F of the 11th Georgia - "Mrs. Joe Brown's Boys"
I wonder how many actual cotton planters were really enlisted in Co. E, 59th GA...
 
What are the best regiment, brigade, and division names?

Buck Tail Brigade
Black Hats
Stonewall Brigade
Laurel Brigade
Lightning Brigade
Wheat's Tigers
Louisiana Tigers
Pelican Regiment
Crescent Regiment
Light Division
Excelsior Brigade
Wolverines

I know it sounds corny, but I am building my army on Ultimate Generals, and I need good names for my "elite" units.
Still none better than The Iron Brigade.
 
What are the best regiment, brigade, and division names?

Buck Tail Brigade
Black Hats
Stonewall Brigade
Laurel Brigade
Lightning Brigade
Wheat's Tigers
Louisiana Tigers
Pelican Regiment
Crescent Regiment
Light Division
Excelsior Brigade
Wolverines

I know it sounds corny, but I am building my army on Ultimate Generals, and I need good names for my "elite" units.
Glad to see I am not the only one who does this with that game. I am addicted....
 
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