DisasterWargamer  | 05 Jul 2018 9:16 p.m. PST |
Reading this recently link A collection of unit nicknames from the American Civil War Below are a small number of the ones mentioned – what are your top 5? My list of favorites include: Odin's Rifles
Stonewall Brigade
Lightning Brigade
Opdycke's Tigers
Excelsior Brigade
Orphan Brigade
Tallapoosa Thrashers
Baker Fire Eaters
Southern Avengers
Chickasaw Desperadoes
Lexington Wild Cats
and of course the Iron Brigade |
| Jakar Nilson | 05 Jul 2018 9:33 p.m. PST |
The Charging Idiots, or whatever the 22nd Union cavalry regiment under Cpt. Stark was called. |
| Desert Fox | 05 Jul 2018 9:57 p.m. PST |
Iron brigade
Irish brigade
Louisiana Tigers |
| ZULUPAUL | 06 Jul 2018 2:22 a.m. PST |
Iron Brigade & Irish Brigade |
| BW1959 | 06 Jul 2018 3:40 a.m. PST |
Gibraltar Bde
Irish Bde
Iron Bde
Ohio Bde |
| redbanner4145 | 06 Jul 2018 6:38 a.m. PST |
|
| Choctaw | 06 Jul 2018 7:44 a.m. PST |
|
| Garde de Paris | 06 Jul 2018 2:40 p.m. PST |
THE PHILALPHIA BRIGADE: For a very brief time, I "soldiered" with the 69th Pennsylvania, re-enactors. It was one of 4 regiments at Gettysburg of the original "California" regiments, raised in Philadelphia. It was defending Cemetery Ridge with Cushing's Battery. The 72nd of this brigade has a specific Zouave-inspired (Dark blue cutaway jacket; sky blue "balloon" trousers with leggings) uniform depicted in the statue in this Wikipedia article: link |
| Extrabio1947 | 06 Jul 2018 5:57 p.m. PST |
The Lightning Brigade above all others. A fitting name for a Brigade that characterized the speed and firepower of blitzkrieg. |
| MSU John | 07 Jul 2018 4:49 a.m. PST |
Orphan, Stonewall. Irish, Lightning, Iron |
| AICUSV | 08 Jul 2018 7:33 p.m. PST |
I too like the Philadelphia Brigade 69th, 71st,72nd, 106th PVI.
Favorite regiment nick name was one from New Jersey ( I've forgotten the number, which I understand that Jersey numbered their regiments based upon the exit of the Garden State Parkway they came from), the "Yahoo Regiment". |
| KeithRK | 10 Jul 2018 8:46 a.m. PST |
The Mule Brigade at The Battle of Wauhatchie. |
| xanthippus | 05 Aug 2018 2:44 p.m. PST |
The Black Hat Brigade, because it was given by the enemy |
| Trajanus | 06 Aug 2018 1:40 a.m. PST |
Aren't Lexington Wild Cats a High School Footbat Team? |
| donlowry | 06 Aug 2018 8:54 a.m. PST |
Surprised no one has mentioned Benning's Rock Brigade. |
| donlowry | 06 Aug 2018 8:55 a.m. PST |
The Mule Brigade at The Battle of Wauhatchie. Given the brevet rank of horses for their gallant charge! (Too bad it never really happened.) |
| KeithRK | 06 Aug 2018 10:58 a.m. PST |
They have their own poem! The Charge of the Mule Brigade Half a mile, half a mile,
Half a mile onward,
Right through the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred.
"Forward the Mule Brigade!
Charge for the Rebs," they neighed.
Straight for the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred. "Forward the Mule Brigade!"
Was there a mule dismayed?
Not when their long ears felt
All their ropes sundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to make Rebs fly.
On! to the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred. Mules to the right of them,
Mules to the left of them,
Mules behind them
Pawed, neighed, and thundered.
Breaking their own confines
Breaking through Longstreet's lines
Into the Georgia troops
Stormed the two hundred. Wild all their eyes did glare,
Whisked all their tails in air
Scattering the chivalry there,
While all the world wondered.
Not a mule back bestraddled,
Yet how they all skedaddled --
Fled every Georgian,
Unsabred, unsaddled,
Scattered and sundered!
How they were routed there
By the two hundred! Mules to the right of them,
Mules to the left of them,
Mules behind them
Pawed, neighed, and thundered;
Followed by hoof and head
Full many a hero fled,
Fain in the last ditch dead,
Back from an ass's jaw
All that was left of them, --
Left by the two hundred. When can their glory fade?
Oh, what a wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Mule Brigade,
Long-eared two hundred! |
| Stephen Miller | 06 Aug 2018 12:28 p.m. PST |
Iron Brigade
Irish Brigade
Stonewall Brigade
Lightning Brigade |
| Old Contemptibles | 08 Aug 2018 2:24 p.m. PST |
Here are some regimental and company nick names. "Swamphogs" 19th Indiana Infantry
"Mozart Regiment" 40th New York Infantry
"Scandinavian Regiment" 15th Wisconsin Infantry
"Louisiana Tigers"
"Terry's Texas Rangers"
"Canebrake Rifle Guards" D Company, 4th Alabama Infantry
"Laurel Regiment" 7th Virginia Cavalry
"Walker Guards"
"White's Tiger Rifles"
"Delta Rangers"
"University Greys"
"Walker's Greyhounds"
"Poundcake Regiment" 5th Georgia Infantry
"Southern Rifles" Co. D 3rd Alabama Infantry
"Huckleberries", aka "Hungry Seventh" 7th Wisconsin Infantry
"Magnolia Regiment" of Alabama |
| Please delete me | 09 Aug 2018 4:46 a.m. PST |
Excelsior Brigade
Philadelphia Brigade
Iron Brigade
Louisiana Tigers
Irish Brigade |
prepares to do some regimental-level ACW gaming.
