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Re: Why cant we form 100 man companies?
Dale,
If the numbers of an actual company in the 6th Mississippi were 100 men at the time of Shiloh then yes. But looking at the information on the 6th Mississippi, it's highly unlikely. There were a little over 450 engaged in the regiment that day. When time gets closer I'm hoping to make some trips up to Jackson, and would enjoy having you and Dennis along researching.
Here's a quote from (then) Colonel Cleburne: "Again and again the Sixth Mississippi, unaided, charged the enemy's line, and it was only when the regiment had lost 300 officers and men killed and wounded, out of an aggregate of 425, that it yielded and retreated in disorder over its own dead and dying. Colonel Thornton, Major Lowry, the field officers, were both wounded. It would be useless to enlarge on the courage and devotion of the Sixth Mississippi." *
*Official Records; Series I vol. X, pt 1, pg 581.
To date, one of the largest companies I have been a part of was the Southern Guard/ONV/WIG program at Stone's River a few years ago. Seemed like blue as far as you could see.
Dale,
If the numbers of an actual company in the 6th Mississippi were 100 men at the time of Shiloh then yes. But looking at the information on the 6th Mississippi, it's highly unlikely. There were a little over 450 engaged in the regiment that day. When time gets closer I'm hoping to make some trips up to Jackson, and would enjoy having you and Dennis along researching.
Here's a quote from (then) Colonel Cleburne: "Again and again the Sixth Mississippi, unaided, charged the enemy's line, and it was only when the regiment had lost 300 officers and men killed and wounded, out of an aggregate of 425, that it yielded and retreated in disorder over its own dead and dying. Colonel Thornton, Major Lowry, the field officers, were both wounded. It would be useless to enlarge on the courage and devotion of the Sixth Mississippi." *
*Official Records; Series I vol. X, pt 1, pg 581.
To date, one of the largest companies I have been a part of was the Southern Guard/ONV/WIG program at Stone's River a few years ago. Seemed like blue as far as you could see.
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