Sep 5, 2014
"Efficiently garrisoned as any in the department": Evaulation of USCT troops in Florida
“Efficiently garrisoned as any in the department”: Evaulation of USCT troops in Florida
Bear with me for another “backwater of Florida” post here. This has some sesquicentennial timing, as I like to incorporate here. It also works into the USCT experience that I like to highlight as we proceed through the sesquicentennial.
On September 5, 1864, Colonel Charles Brayton, Chief of Artillery for the Department of the South, offered a report of a recent visit to the garrisons in…
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