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  VI Corps (ACW) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The VI Corps (Sixth Corps) was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
General Franklin was promoted to the command of the Left Grand Division, VI and I Corps, and General Smith succeeded to the command of the corps.
The VI Corps was disbanded on June 28, 1865.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/VI_Corps_(ACW)   (1830 words)

  
 Vi_corps_(acw) info here at en.along-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
On June 20, 1862, the corps unexpressed 24,911, in duration und absent, with 19,405 in duration for duty, equipped; the corps artillery unexpressed 40 guns.
General Sedgwick, who had succeeded to the corps command, organizationed an strike on Marye's Heights, und that reinforced fix that had defied the assaults of the former battle, was first remote carried by the VI Corps at the fleck of the bayonet.
The installment of the 3rd Division was plentyed by the 3rd Division of the III Corps, that corps having gone discontinued; the devoir of division was apt to Maj. Gen.
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 Antietam 1862: US notes
ACW Flags Union p13: general hospital flags were yellow, with a large green Roman letter H in the field.
ACW Flags Union p13: General Order No 102, 24 March 1862: HQ for Army of the Potomac was a plain national flag (stars and stripes).
ACW Flags Union p14: General Order No 119, 30 April 1862: Army of the Potomac's Artillery Reserve flag was a red flag with a white star in its centre.
www.dimacleod.co.uk /history/antietam/us-notes.htm   (440 words)

  
 The American Civil War Campaign
One division of the corps was assumed to be in the box with the main body, one division as a screen.
Corps may move to different cities as part of the same march, provided they all start the march from the same city.The distance that a corps moves in a march will depend on the transportation line on which it is moving:
Corps troops are promoted to the next level when the majority of the stands in their unit reach that level.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /mcnelly/vb/campaigns/acw_campaign.htm   (8939 words)

  
 TheHistoryNet | America's Civil War | America's Civil War: XI Corps Fight During the Chancellorsville Campaign
During the Antietam campaign, the XI Corps remained on guard in Washington, and by the time of the Battle of Fredericksburg, the XI Corps had been combined with the XII Corps into a Grand Division led by Maj. Gen.
Even though 16 of the XI Corps' 27 regiments had seen combat, they had fought in actions considered "minor" by the survivors of Antietam and Fredericksburg, and the corps was held in contempt.
Actually, close to 50 percent of the corps were American citizens by birth, and a large portion of the foreign-born were naturalized citizens.
www.historynet.com /acw/blburningshame   (1163 words)

  
 U.S. VI Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The stiffness of the German defences sorely tested VI Corps and it suffered heavy casualties before German attempts to throw the Allied force back into the sea were thwarted by a combination of naval gunfire, bombing and the approach of British Eighth Army from the south.
The landing was not opposed with much fervour, and VI Corps swept up the Rhône valley to join forces with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's troops coming from Normandy.
VI Corps spent the rest of the war as part of Seventh Army, operating on the southern end of the Allied front against the Germans in the west.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._VI_Corps   (526 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - A British AAR with me at the helm
The Corps was continuously attacked during the evening of the 12th and morning of the 13th, with each division losing around 20% of there men.
On the 26th I Corp attacked the Nationalist forces in the Almeria pocket, the battle went on throughout the 26th and 27th, ending in the early hours of the 28th with the destruction of the rebel force there.
February 20th, IV Corps is raised, 7th armoured division is the sole division in the Corps.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=212702   (9570 words)

  
 IV Corps (ACW) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Couch's division was transferred to join VI Corps during the Antietam Campaign and remained with them for the duration of the war.
The corps was attached to the Department of Virginia under John A. Dix, and took part (along with VII Corps) in minor diversionary actions against Richmond during the Gettysburg Campaign.
This corps was created on October 10, 1863, from the remnants of XX and XXI Corps, both of which had suffered heavy casualties at Chickamauga.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IV_Corps_(ACW)   (495 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Contra Julianum VI, 7 (Pl. ~ 5, 1512-13).
Emperor Leo VI the Wise (886-9II) His Aoyos i'yKC aCtK~ S is a free and abridged version of George Alexandrinus.
Vi., De Theodoro Lectore Theophanis fonte prae-cipuo (=Commentationes philologae Jenenses 1).
www.reu.org /public/chrysos/life.txt   (15845 words)

  
 Humberside Wargames Society: DBASYW - DBA Variant
French Corps III may be brought in to play the first time Napoleon rolls a 8,9 or 10.
French Corps VI may be brought in to play the first time Napoleon rolls a 9 or 10, AFTER TURN 12.
Prussian Corps II may be brought into play on the next roll of 9 or 10, after Corps IV has entered.
www.barr.karoo.net /hws/dbx/dbaextsc.htm   (4219 words)

  
 The Union Cavalryman in the Civil War VI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Even as late as 1864, when Major General Philip H. Sheridan took over command of the Army of the Potomac's Cavalry Corps, this was still somewhat the case.
The southerners had grouped their cavalry into full brigades and corps, well-suited and outfitted to take charge and go deep into enemy territory on destructive raids.
JEB Stuart, himself a veteran of Indian fighting on the western frontier, would be repulsed on the final day of the Gettysburg battle and his cavalry would never again so dominate the field as it had earlier in the war.
www.bufordsboys.com /UnionCavalrymanVI.htm   (3748 words)

  
 Photo6 Page
In the Overland Campaign, at the Battle of the Wilderness, the brigade fought along the Orange Courthouse Turnpike.
At the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, the brigade was on the left flank of the "Mule Shoe" salient, in the part of the line known as the "Bloody Angle", where Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps launched a massive assault.
The body is a slightly reduced DML body and the HS ir Carnot with repainted hair and the usual dirty washes to the face area.
www.egonzinc.com /photo6.html   (443 words)

  
 VI Corps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sharpshooter of the Month - The VI Corps Competition is discontinued August 1, 2001.
If you happened by this site via web surfing, we are a world wide group of armchair Generals who re-fight the battles of the American Civil War via email using the products of Talonsoft and HPS Simulations as well as member created scenarios.
Effective October 1, 2002, BG Steve Blake has taken command of the VI Corps.
www.vicorps.homestead.com   (210 words)

  
 Uptons
Upton's Lesson VI however provides extensive directions for forming the company from a two rank line of battle to one rank, maneuvering it into column and deploying it.
Upton's Lesson VI both deal with deploying a battalion as skirmishers, something with which many of us are not familiar.
In Article VI, Gen. Upton skips this for the moment, and goes directly to directions for deploying the close column into line of battle.
home.att.net /~Rebmus/Uptons.htm   (16945 words)

  
 HFG scenarios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The top-down pass results in a corps with 6 Mini elements, compared to the 9 elements in II Corps.
The CS player can choose to deploy this corps to the right, as Hood did, or maybe send Forrest's cavalry corps with infantry support on a flanking move across the fords, as Forrest advocated.
Army of Northern Virginia (Lee) with 2 corps: A.P.Hill and Early (Ewell is sick).
www.phoenix.org /jtcoleman/minis/hfg/hfg.html   (2195 words)

  
 Civil War Corps Badges - Wikimedia Commons
Corps badges were originally worn by Union soldiers on the top of their army forage cap (kepi), left side of the hat, or over their left breast.
The idea is attributed to Gen. Philip Kearny who ordered the men in his sew a two-inch square of red cloth on their hats to avoid confusion on the battlefield.
This idea was adopted by Gen. Joseph Hooker after he assumed command of the Army of the Potomac, so any soldier could be identified at a distance.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Civil_War_Corps_Badges   (566 words)

  
 TheHistoryNet | America's Civil War | Battle of Chancellorsville: Day One
Hooker's scheme was relatively simple: The Union army would close in on the Rebels from two directions; meanwhile, Stoneman's horsemen would encircle the Confederates and cut off their escape southward.
John Gibbon's division, from Couch's II Corps, toward the Fredericksburg battleground.
On April 13, Stoneman's cavalry corps, less one brigade, rode out of Falmouth to ford the Rappahannock and move on Lee's rear.
www.historynet.com /acw/bldayoneatchancellorsville   (1151 words)

  
 American Civil War Gaming & Reading
Granger's Reserve Corps rolls for initiative and issues orders to advance West away from its defensive position at Missionary Ridge in an attempt to block F-Cav from flanking Thomas who has been marching North on the Roseville Road.
When Hill became the commander of the new III Corps shortly before Gettysburg, the 35th Georgia and its entire division moved with their leader.
Thomas was not expecting a full division of cavalry and 2 divisions of the Reserve Corps to be waiting at Jay's Mill.
brettschulte.net /ACWBlog   (6519 words)

  
 Thomas Neill
Thomas Neill commanded 3d Brigade, Second Division, VI Corps consisting of 7th Maine, 33d New York, 43d New York, 49th New York, 77th New York, and 61st Pennsylvania.
Neill's Brigade was detached from John Sedgwick's VI Corps and attached to Henry Slocum's XII Corps, and posted on Wolf Hill at the extreme right of the Union lines.
On the morning of 3 July, the brigade took part in the assault on Edward Johnson's division of Richard Ewell's corps to retake the rifle pits XII Corps lost the evening before.
www.eng.auburn.edu /users/schwap1/ACW/lrtmap.docs/neill.html   (124 words)

  
 Gettysburg revisited: Lee wins - Alternate History Discussion Board
The larger VI Corps was over 30 miles away and would not arrive until later next afternoon), Lee makes Early, Ewell and Hill move and they storm and conquer Cementery Hill and Culp's Hill.
The Union forces -XII Corps- try to retake Culp's Hill and the III Corps Cementery Hill, but fail with a high amount of losses.
In my opinion, a Confederate victory at Gettysburg might lead to the Confederacy existing for a few more months, but even if the Virginia/Pennsylvania front is a Confederate victory, the Union will be eating away at their western boundaries.
www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=7819   (3186 words)

  
 Historical resources
Union forces: HQ (McLellan), I Corps (Hooker), II Corps (Sumner), V Corps (Porter), VI Corps (Franklin), IX Corps (Burnside), XII Corps (Mansfield), Kanawha Division (Cox), Artillery Reserve (Hays), Cavalry Division (Pleasonton).
U.S. Army Training & Doctrine Command - conduct research to publish history, preserve a selected collection of historical documents as the institutional memory of the command, and advise commanders on the use of military history in the professional development of leaders.
Washington Artillery of New Orleans' home-page, filled with advice for ACW re-enactors, which means good articles on the time-period.
www.dimacleod.co.uk /history   (1467 words)

  
 Civil War Bookshelf: 06/01/2004 - 06/30/2004
The readers and writers of ACW history today are so overwhelmingly story-driven that all the details underlying a storyline can change, every element can be shown to be something other than what they thought; they can even accept that; and yet the story must remain the same.
In reading Thomas Fleming's WWI tome Illusion of Victory, the ACW appears as an actor who repeatedly enters the stage on miscue and is then directed off.
Timothy Reese, author of a book on the the Regulars in the ACW, pointed out some problems with this date and my implied lineage, chief of which is that Congress abolished the Continentals after the Revolution.
cwbn.blogspot.com /2004_06_01_cwbn_archive.html   (7255 words)

  
 SERIES REPLAY
This is evident over on the left, where he is moving released IX Corps artillery units to fire at the defenders of the Lower Bridge.
It is near impossible for the Union to cross this bridge in column, and until IX Corps is released, CJ should pull his defenders back to prevent them from being fired upon and tired out early on.
William’s XII Corps Division and Rickett’s I Corps Division hold the Miller Cornfield and East Woods area.
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 Napoleon in 1870 - Page 2 - Armchair General Forums
Furthermore, while there were no real alternatives to the artillery pieces of his period, the fact that he doesn't even experiment with arming his skirmishers with rifles suggest that he's not entirely flexible.
Anyway there can be no doubt that with the whole of Lobau corps and the Young Guard available, the issue wouldn't have been in doubt.
Observer Phil Sheridan said the breakout was possible, granted he said he could have done it with the (U.S.) Civil War VI corps.
www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/showthread.php?p=595635   (6495 words)

  
 SERSAS Fall 2004 Conference
In 1915 many of these doctors were transferred to other combat units, leading to a dearth of medical officers in the Kariokor spite of the large numbers of the Carriers serving in the war.
Gooden-Docker found a number of old recruits in his Signals Corps he wrote that, "it is obvious that whoever selects these recruits for specialist training does not realize or understand that it is impossible to train an old African as a specialist….
The bad reputation of the Carrier Corps would follow the military and would come back to haunt it during the Second World War, when the military tried to recruit soldiers into the military labor force.
www.ecu.edu /african/sersas/Papers/OwinoMFall2004P.htm   (8644 words)

  
 Là DOVE OSANO LE AQUILE
Vi sono cose impubblicabili, parole incomprensibili, i nostri sentimenti inesprimibili, ci chiamano pirati, oggi wargamer, domani resistenza, rivolta ai canoni precostituiti, contro i tromboni sapienti di un wargame sfatto e decadente, poco ci importa di essere schiavi di lobby commerciali o corporazioni ai margini dell’Impero.
When Larry Brom wrote these rules, he used made some design decisions that mean that this rules set is "out of the box" or different from most sets of Napoleonic rules.
These rules, written for the Pike and Shot Society, are aimed at simulating the large-scale encounters fought in the second half of the 17th century, and thus are primarily intended for 1/2400th or 1/3000th models.
www.accademiawargame.it /napoleon.htm   (3970 words)

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