Tag Archives: 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment

Echoes of Shiloh and Maine

Tomorrow, April 6, marks 161 years since Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston pitched into Union Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant in the scrub woods surrounding a rural Tennessee church named “Shiloh.” Named for that church, the two-day battle caused a shocking 23,000-plus casualties, with the hard-up-for-men South losing a bit more than 13,000 soldiers, including the […]

The monumental soldier, Part 2

The Maine soldier responsible for the construction of the nation’s first privately funded Civil War monument trekked from battlefield to battlefield across the Upper South before returning to the Pine Tree State. Amidst the miserable weather engulfing the Shiloh battlefield after sunset on April 6, 1862, the 19th U.S. Infantry regulars commanded by Stephen Decatur […]