Search ThisMightyScourge.com
-
Recent Posts
ThisMightyScourge.com Archives
Post Categories
- 9th Indiana Infantry
- Ambrose Bierce
- Announcements
- Artillery Batteries
- Battlefield Photo Essays
- Battlefield Wanderings
- Book Reviews
- Call to Action
- Campaign Studies
- Cavalry Battles
- Cavalry Raids
- Cavalry Regiments
- Civil War Blogs
- Civil War Firearms
- Civil War Preservation Trust
- Civil War Sesquicentennial
- Civil War Trust
- Commissioned Officers
- Congressional Medal of Honor
- Documentaries
- General Musings
- General Officers
- Guest Stories
- Historical Events
- Infantry Brigades
- Infantry Regiments
- Interviews
- News
- Photo Essays (miscellaneous)
- Private and Non-Commissioned Soldiers
- Publishers
- Quotes
- Research and Writing
- Sam Watkins Co. Aytch
- Sesquicentennial Events
- Significant Battles
- Skirmishes
- Soldier Profiles
- This Day In The Civil War
- Uncategorized
Civil War Blogs
- 13th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- Abraham Lincoln Blog
- All Not So Quiet Along the Potomac
- Army of Tennessee
- Battle of Franklin
- Battlefield Portraits (Modern Battlefield Photography)
- Battlefield Wanderings
- Beyond the Crater
- Brooks D. Simpson's Crossroads
- Bull Runnings
- Cenantua's Blog
- Chickamauga Blog
- Civil War Books and Authors
- Civil War Bookshelf
- Civil War Interactive Newswire
- Civil War Librarian
- Civil War Medicine
- Civil War Memory
- Civil War Notebook
- Civil War Preservation Trust
- Civil War Voices
- Civil Warriors
- Confederate Book Review
- Dead Confederates
- Draw The Sword
- Gettysburg Daily
- Grapevine Dispatches
- Hoofbeats and Cold Steel
- Irish in the American Civil War
- My Civil War Battlefield Pictures
- My Year of Living Rangerously
- Myles Keogh – Three Wars; Two Continents; One Irish Soldier
- North Carolina and the Civil War
- Old Virginia Blog
- One More Shot (1st Georgia Infantry)
- Past In The Present
- Rantings of a Civil War Historian
- Shenandoah 1864
- South From The North Woods
- The 48th Pennsylvania Infantry
- The Battle of South Mountain
- The Blood of My Kindred
- The Sable Arm
- The Strawfoot: A New Yorker's Civil War Sesquicentennial Site
- To the Sound of the Guns
- TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog
- Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market
My Favorite Publishers
Other Web Sites of Interest
Category Archives: Commissioned Officers
Captain David Acheson – Co. C 140th Pennsylvania
David Acheson was born in Washington, Pennsylvania on January 10, 1841. He was the third of nine children born to Alexander and Jane Acheson (Wishart). With the outbreak of the Civil War, the Acheson boys began enlisting in the army. … Continue reading
Patrick DeLacey, First Sergeant – 143d Pennsylvania
Patrick DeLacey was born on November 25, 1835 near Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Not much is known about DeLacey’s early life and education. DeLacey would enlist in Company A, 143d Pennsylvania Infantry on August 26, 1862.(i) His rank upon enlistment was sergeant. … Continue reading
James Trimble Brown – 1st Lieutenant CSA Cavalry
James Trimble Brown(i) was born in Pulaski, Tennessee on February 25, 1842. Born to Neill S. Brown and Mary Anne Trimble, he was well educated by his parents. His father was governor of Tennessee, during the Mexican War. He would … Continue reading
Francis A. Waller – Corporal 6th Wisconsin
Francis A. Waller was born on August 15, 1840 in Gurneyville, Ohio. Waller moved to Vernon County, Wisconsin in 1853. After the Confederate firing on Fort Sumter, on April 12, 1861, Abraham Lincoln would issue a proclamation, on April 15, … Continue reading
John Gibbon – U.S. Major General
April 20, 2009 marks the 182nd birthday of John Gibbon, career military man, and one of the most successful commanders of the Federal army, during the Civil War.(i) Born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania on April 20, 1827, to Dr. John H. … Continue reading
William Blackstone Williams – U.S. Captain
William “Blackstone” Williams was no friend of the Republican Party, or Abraham Lincoln. As Blackstone’s minister later stated of Blackstone he was, “staunch in the conviction that the success of that party, following the long agitation at the North of … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioned Officers
Leave a comment
James M. Pipes – Captain
James Milton Pipes was born in Dotysburg, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1840.(i) The son of Washington Pipes, and Cynthia Clark, his great-grandfather was Captain John Pipes, Jr., a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Very little is known about the early life … Continue reading
Julius P. Garesche – US Colonel
Julius Peter Garesch was born in Cuba on April 26, 1821. His grandfather Jean Garesch would add “du Rocher” to his name to distinguish him from his older brothers.(i) This was a common custom in France. His parents were Vital … Continue reading
Colonel Everett Peabody – Unsung Hero of Shiloh
Everett Peabody was born on June 13, 1830, in Springfield, Massachusetts. The son of Reverend William B.O. Peabody, and Eliza Amelia White, he was tall, athletic and enjoyed the outdoors. Young Everett was smart and enjoyed reading poetry, and writing. He … Continue reading
Andre Cailloux – The death of a Southern Patriot
The definition of “Patriot,” in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is: one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests. This is a “dead ringer” for Captain Andre Cailloux¹ – the first black officer in the U.S. Army. … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioned Officers, General Musings
Leave a comment