"Hebert's Brigade and Forney's Divisional Artillery" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Apr 2016 11:52 a.m. PST |
"…Hebert's Brigade of Forney's Division has a special significance to me as it contained the regiment in which my great-grandfather, Wesley Washington Pitts, served. The 36th Mississippi Regiment was organized shortly before Shiloh but didn't join Beauregard's army until after the battle. They participated in the battles of Iuka and Corinth in the fall of 1862, then were assigned to the garrison at Vicksburg where they stayed until the surrender on July 4, 1863. Reconstituted in west Alabama after being exchanged, the regiment joined the Army of the Tennessee as part of Bishop Polk's Army of Mississippi reinforcements, fighting from New Hope Church (May 1864) through the disasters at Franklin and Nashville. It then was assigned to the garrison at Mobile where it ended the war…"
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 ColCampbell  | 07 Apr 2016 1:37 p.m. PST |
Boy, Armand but you're quick on the trigger. I had just posted that a little over 3 hours before you did. TMP link   Jim |
| Tango01 | 07 Apr 2016 10:54 p.m. PST |
(smile) I'm following your track my friend… (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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completes his initial Union force in 1:72nd scale.
