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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Henry Sykes
		Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS (January 25, 1790 – June 16, 1872) was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.
		Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces of the Honourable East India Company, in 1804, returning to Britain in 1837.
		Sykes also studied the fish of the area, and wrote papers on the quails and hemipodes of India.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Colonel_W._H._Sykes (414 words)

	George Sykes Information
		At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sykes was assigned as a major in the 14th U.S. Infantry.
		Sykes continued as a division commander through the battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam (in reserve), Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville (in reserve).
		Meade and general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant agreed that Sykes was not a good choice for the upcoming Overland Campaign in May 1864, so when the Army of the Potomac was reorganized that spring, Sykes lost his corps and was sent to uneventful duty in the Department of Kansas.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Sykes (446 words)

	Twenty First Regiment of Infantry
		Colonel Henry A. Morrow died at Hot Springs, Arkansas, January 30, 1891, and was succeeded by Colonel Richard F. O'Beirne, who, however, did not live to join, as colonel, the regiment he had left in 1879 as a captain.
		Colonel Joseph S. Conrad was appointed to the command of the regiment as of the latter date, but after a brief period of duty with his new command, died at Fort Randall, South Dakota, December 4, 1891, while on an inspecting tour.
		Colonel Horace Jewett succeeded to the command of the regiment and is its present head.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/R&H/R&H-21IN.htm (2817 words)

	History Of The 66th N.C. Inf. Reg.
		Colonel Moore was a brilliant young officer who had been at the West Point Military Academy and was an officer of remarkable appearance and soldierly bearing.
		In the series of fights which ended on 3 June, Colonel A. Moore was mortally wounded by a ball striking him in the neck and he died in a very few minutes thereafter.
		Upon the resignation of W. Williams, who was Adjutant of the regiment up to that time, the writer, who had been a cadet at The Virginia Military Institute, and who had recently been appointed First Lieutenant in the regular Confederate Army, was assigned to duty as adjutant of this regiment.
	www.angelfire.com /nc/twsj/history66thncinf.html (3832 words)

	THE RESERVES AT GETTYSBURG
		On the left of the second line, Colonel Taylor, not realizing the position, undertook to countermarch the Bucktails, which movement was also attempted by the Second, but in the confusion of the movement they suddenly found themselves confronted and mixed up with the charging enemy.
		Colonel Taylor and several officers, with fifteen or twenty men were on the extreme left at the time, and had just discovered some two or three hundred of the enemy but a short distance away.
		Colonel Jackson, of the Eleventh, sent Captain Mills with a portion of his company to prevent the enemy removing an abandoned battery through the night.
	www.pabucktail.com /Reference/PA@Gburg/Pgs108-122.htm (4328 words)

	E-Books : Suitors and Suppliants: The Little Nations at Versailles: 3: The Arabs plead for Freedom: Emir Faisal, ...
		Colonel Lawrence, and General Nouri Pasha came before the Big Four, they were certainly the most resplendent figures that had ever entered the Quai d'Orsay.
		Sykes was born, like Robinson Crusoe, in Yorkshire, I should say about forty years ago, the only son of a Tory squire with large estates and with other resources which made him quite indifferent to the output of his fields and farms.
		In many ways Sykes was a companion piece to Lawrence, though the former had fought his way to prominence under the handicap of great wealth and the footsteps of the latter had always been dogged by poverty.
	www.historicaltextarchive.com /books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=41&cid=3 (7423 words)

	First World War.com - Vintage Photographs - Commanders
		Second-Lieutenant H. Throswell, V.C. Allied council of war, 6 Dec 15: Porro, French, Joffre and Jilinsky
		Captain H. Cawley, M.P. Grand Duke Nicholas inspecting troops in the Caucasus
		Colonel Sir Percy Cox, Chief British Resident of the Persian Gulf
	www.firstworldwar.com /photos/commanders4.htm (520 words)

	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Regulars to the Rescue at Gaines' Mill
		George W. Morell and George A. Sykes, McCall's division and all the cavalry not assigned to divisions or army headquarters.
		In Sykes' line were the artillery batteries of Captain John Edwards, Captain S.H. Weed, Captain John C. Tidball and Lieutenant H. Kingsbury.
		Sykes and his men withdrew to a second line on a ridge to their rear.
	www.batteryb.com /regulars_rescue.html (3553 words)

	Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry
		Lieutenant W—— absented himself from the battalion on the evening of the 1st and did not join until near the present camp and could not satisfactorily account to me for his absence from the battalion.
		General Sykes told the writer after the war that it was on this occasion that General Fitz John Porter reminded General McClellan that his corps was the last reserve of the last Army of the Republic.
		General Gordon Granger, a colonel unassigned, was assigned to the regiment, vice Lovell, but on the 20th of December General Smith, who had been assigned to the 15th Infantry, was transferred to the 14th, General Granger at the same time being assigned to the 15th Infantry.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/R&H/R&H-14IN.htm (11628 words)

	The 15th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
		Some of them were quartered at Leavenworth, of which Colonel Jennison had meantime taken command, while others were distributed between the various posts in Southern Kansas as far south as Leroy, during the march to which point, and pending the erection of suitable quarters, some of the men were badly frozen.
		Colonel Moonlight had command of the 2d Brigade, Colonel Blair of the 3d, and Colonel Ford of the 4th, (afterwards organized).
		Colonel Hoyt, took the left of the road, myself the right, with the 3d Wisconsin battalion, two companies of the 2d Colorado and one of the 15th.
	www.kansasguardmuseum.org /15ksvls.html (5201 words)

	History of Delaware County by W.W. MUNSELL - 1797-1880
		Alexander Harper was, after the colonel, the most fearless of sagacious of the family who came to Harpersfield, and he was nearly as prominent in the various services which border warfare entailed upon them as his most celebrated brother.
		Arriving there with Colonel Harper he chose the farm, about one mile east from the center of the town, upon which was a log house, and quite a clearing, made before the war, and purchased two hundred acres, being lots No. 57 and 58.
		Colonel Stevens, though distant in his manner toward strangers, was very kind and obliging to his friends and neighbors, never refusing a favor which could be reasonably granted.
	www.dcnyhistory.org /books/munsharp.html (12579 words)

	QUOTES ON FAIRBAIRN, SYKES, & O'NEILL
		He was Captain Bill Sykes - formerly of the Shanghai Police - and he taught unarmed combat and quick shooting reactions such as how to kill four people in a room whilst falling down on the ground near the door lintel to make oneself a difficult target.
		Sykes was always relaxed, his moon face was pleasant but you never knew what was on his mind.
		Sykes outfitted me with a brand new Sten Gun and a Webley revolver and had me run through a combat course in the basement of a medieval Scottish castle.
	www.gutterfighting.org /FairbairnSykesONeill.html (3585 words)

	THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR June 15th 1862 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Colonel Starnes reports on a skirmish in which Private Whitset of the Third Tennessee Cavalry killed four Union soldiers using a double-barreled shotgun.
		Colonel FRY: I wish to call the attention of the general to the outrageous proceedings of the recent expedition to Chattanooga.
		I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, STEPHEN H. Captain, Fifth U.S. Artillery, Commanding Battery I. While Henry Halleck takes care of the military situation in Tennessee, it is up to Military Governor Andrew Johnson to handle the influx of prostitutes who have invaded the state.
	www.civilweek.com /1862/jun1562.htm (3497 words)

	Scott Gutzke's History of the 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
		Colonel Sweet was disabled by a ball that he received after the regiment had fallen back and did not assume command again.
		At this time Lieutenant Colonel Harrison C. Hobart was assigned to the command of three regiments of the First Brigade and Major Michael H. Fitch, the former Adjutant, took command of the regiment.
		Colonel Hobart was assigned to command the First Brigade and the regimental command fell to Lieutenant Colonel Fitch.
	www.batteryb.com /webmaster/21stWIVI.html (3774 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		The arrival of the entire Second Regiment of Infantry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Major General Bennett Riley in 1849 considerably increased the number of troops in California and emphasized the need to control desertions, increasingly numerous since the gold discovery of the previous year.
		Colonel Joseph K. Mansfield, who inspected the post in 1854, referred to it as "simply a sub depot of supplies of quartermaster and commissary stores, and no troops nor population." At that time three commissioned officers, one sergeant, and twenty-five civilian employees were attached to the sub-depot.
		He was assigned to the Quartermaster's Department in 1861 and held the rank of lieutenant colonel and brevet colonel at the time of his death in 1870.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/74summer/posts.htm (5283 words)

	68th North Carolina Troops
		Colonel Hinton was a prominent lawyer and orator and after the war removed to Norfolk, where he died.
		Lieutenant Colonel Yellowley was also a prominent lawyer at Greenville and in early manhood had, under great provocation, killed a man in a duel, an event which was thought to have saddened his whole life.
		Colonel Hinton, however, who was at the Sherrod house, unknowing of these movements, was captured, as was his brother, Joseph W. Hinton, our Adjutant.
	members.aol.com /jweaver303/nc/68nct.htm (2969 words)

	Civil War General of the Day
		Born in Delaware, he was the grandson of James Sykes, a noted physician and former governor of the state.
		Sykes, with the rest of the Fifth Corps, was in reserve at Antietam.
		Sykes's could not repeat the adequacy of his Gettysburg performance--in the fall campaign Meade thought Sykes acted too slowly ("Tardy George" again) and in the March 1864 consolidation of the army, Sykes was replaced at the head of the Fifth Corps by General Governeur Warren.
	www.rocemabra.com /~roger/tagg/generals/general19.html (1338 words)

	6th Mississippi Cavalry Regt.
		February 23, Colonel Harrison, commanding cavalry brigade in the Columbus district, was directed to send his regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Sykes' detachment, Colonel Morton's Battalion and Haller’s section of Rice's Artillery to Cotton Gin port for defense of the Tombigbee.
		Colonel Harris was sent with the Sixth to Plentytude, to operate on the flank of Gen.
		Colonel Lipscomb was at Macon with about 250 of Mabry's Brigade, when Grierson's raiders, from Memphis, struck the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in December, 1864.
	www.mississippiscv.org /MS_Units/6th_MS_CAV.htm (945 words)

	6th Pennsylvania Reserves/35th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
		On the 30th of August, Major Madill was elected Colonel of the One hundred and Forty-first Regiment, and a few days thereafter took leave of the Sixth, not without many regrets; for in the last battle at Bull Run he had displayed conspicuous daring and gallantry, and had won the confidence of all.
		Colonel Sinclair was now in command of the brigade, General Seymour having been relieved at his own request.
		Colonel Sinclair having resigned, the brigade was under the command of Colonel William MCandless of the Second Reserve.
	www.pa-roots.com /~pacw/reserves/6thres/6hresorg.html (5641 words)

	The Wargamer Presents Antietam - General Ambrose Burnside Speaks
		A portion of General Rodman's division was sent to the main body under General Pleasonton, and the remainder sent to report to Colonel Rush, who was in command of the force ordered to communicate with General Franklin by way of Jefferson.
		I directed Colonel Kingsbury, of the Eleventh Connecticut, to move forward with his line of skirmishers, and directed General Cox to detail General Crook's brigade to make the assault.
		Colonel Crook's brigade crossed immediately after Sturgis' division, and took its position in support in rear.
	wargamer.com /antietam/burnside-rpt.asp (2541 words)

	10th NY Infantry Regiment's Civil War Newpaper Clippings - NY Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
		Editor, that Colonel McChesney was not in the battle, nor near it, as the Tenth Regiment never passed the village of Hampton.
		Colonel McChesney, I may say, absented himself from the regiment nearly the whole time we were at Sandy Hook, and I hear, after resigning, gave the people of New York to understand that our regiment was anything but what he expected.
		Colonel McChesney was the first person who organized a company of Zouaves in this city, he having previously been connected with the Chicago Zouaves, under the lamented Colonel Ellsworth.
	www.dmna.state.ny.us /historic/reghist/civil/infantry/10thInf/10thInfCWN.htm (6979 words)

	186th Regiment, NY Volunteer Infantry Civil War Newspaper Clippings - NY Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
		Already a portion of your command is on the James, and perchance the eagle eye of Grant marks them; and their presence inspires him with firmer hope and stronger conviction that our arms shall triumph and the enemies of our government must succumb.
		Colonel, go forth, and with this noble banner waving over your command and looming up above the smoke of battle, remember that in war as in peace your aim and object should be "Excelsior."
		Colonel Berens suggested that he had with him too small a detachment to respond, but he would see that the Board and citizens were remembered at the front.
	www.dmna.state.ny.us /historic/reghist/civil/infantry/186thInf/186thInfCWN.htm (2751 words)

	Aetna: 2004 African American History Calendar: Colonel Sidney Alan Brooks, Sr., D.D.S.
		After six years of sleeping on the ground with the troops, Colonel Sidney Alan Brooks decided to follow in the footsteps of military friend Dr. Fred Sykes and serve the military by improving the oral health of its soldiers -- a decision that would make his grandfather, who also was a dentist, proud.
		Today, Colonel Brooks commands 4,000 men and women who are members of the U.S. Army Dental Corps.
		Colonel Brooks added, "You're not able to build relationships with patients because soldiers move on.
	www.aetna.com /diversity/aahcalendar/2004/julyprofile.html (446 words)

	War of 1861-65 - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		James Montgomery of border war fame was colonel of the Third and William Weer of the Fourth.
		Lane transferred the authority to Thomas Ewing, Jr., chief justice of the Kansas supreme court, and the regiment was mustered in at Fort Leavenworth on Sept. 15, 1862, with Thomas Ewing, Jr., as colonel; Thomas Moonlight as lieutenant-colonel, and Preston B. Plumb as major.
		Jennison was afterward succeeded by W. Cloud; Hoyt by H. Haas; and Hunt by B. Simpson.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1912/w/war_of_1861-65.html (4973 words)

	14th MS Infantry Reg
		Reynolds' consolidated command, and Col. H B. Lyons' (Kentucky) consolidated command; the second brigade under Colonel Heiman, the third brigade under D. Russell, including his consolidated command and Waul’s Texans.
		Maj-Gen W. Loring was assigned to temporary command of the Corps during VanDorn’s absence in December, 1862, and this assignment became permanent, his command being known as a division of the army under General Pemberton.
		Colonel Holmes, commanding McPherson's Second Brigade (Missouri, Ohio and Iowa Regiments) reported that they found Colquitt in a commanding position, his center and artillery at Wright's house.
	www.izzy.net /~michaelg/14ms-1.htm (2195 words)

	Winfield Scott Hancock's report of the Battle of Gettysburg
		Ward, and the Eighty-second New York Volunteers, Colonel Huston) to occupy a crest on the right of the brick house, which position was considerably strengthened by a slight breastwork of such materials as the adjoining f ences afforded.
		Colonel Carroll's brigade, of General Hays' division, was retained by General Howard, and, with the exception of the Eighth Ohio, was not engaged with the Second Corps during the day.
		Passing at this time, Colonel Devereux, commanding the Nineteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, anxious to be in the right place, applied to me for permission to move his regiment to the right and to the front, where the line had been broken.
	www.swcivilwar.com /HancockReportGett.html (5422 words)

	29th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
		John W. Campbell, were knocked down by concussion produced by the explosion of a shell very near them, but the regiment was soon afterward carried forward by Lieut.-Col. J.
		General Walthall said in his report: "I directed Colonel Brantley to advance his left as far as it could be done without leaving an interval between his line and the cliff, so as to get the benefit of an oblique fire upon the line that was pressing upon us.
		General Walthall was promoted in June to the command of a division of the Army of Mississippi (Stewart's Corps), composed of the brigades of Quarles, Cantey and Reynolds, with which he took a prominent part in the battles of Peachtree Creek and Ezra Church, near Atlanta.
	www.geocities.com /jack_taylor2 (4164 words)

	93rd. Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at Gettysburg
		The 93rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, known as the "Lebanon Infantry," was formed under the direction of Colonel James M. McCarter, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal congregation of Lebanon, in the autumn of 1861.
		Sykes' Regulars rushing through our rankes in confusion, with assaulting columns of Rebels, under Anderson, Mclaws, Wilcox, Barksdale, Hood, Kershaw and Wofford of twenty thousand men, under the personal command of Gen. Longstreet, were accending Little Round Top.
		The 139th Pennsylvania of our Brigade open fire upon the approaching Rebel column, although the orders were await the coming of the Rebels, and the result was that the whole Brigade,opened and checked the exultant and yelling Rebels.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/Stump44/93atGett.html (1257 words)

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