What are your favorite WBTS units.

[GarrettG1993]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

CS:
1st Texas
5th Texas
3rd Arkansas
Richmond Howitzers
Washington Artillery
1st Texas Light Artillery


US:
All those who ran, deserted, or surrendered!

[Cincinnati Rebel]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

Favorite Confederate Units...a difficult choice, but a few that come to mind:

The 1st Kentucky Brigade
1st Georgia Regulars
11th Georgia
3rd Arkansas
15th Mississippi
6th Alabama
27th Georgia Battalion
4th Virginia Cavalry
1st Louisiana Cavalry
Washington (Louisiana) Artillery
Stanford's Mississipi Battery
The GMI & VMI Cadet Battalions

[James Slonders]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

US
20th Maine
49th NY
151 NY
7th NY Cavalry

CS

Sharpshooters






James Slonders

[damnyankee14th]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

Union:
14th CVI Company D recruited from where I grew up, Company G from where I now live. At the angle at G-burg.
8th CVI, 16th CVI, 9th CVI, 27th CVI, 5th CVI 1st & 2nd CTLI, 2nd CHA
1-4th Minn. Wheatfield, nuf said
5th NH
20th Maine
8th Ohio
2nd, 3rd, 4th US Regulars
5th NY
14th Brooklyn
1st RI
1st brigade CVC
Iron Brigade
69th NY
28th Mass, (my ancestor's unit)


Confed:
Wheat's tigers
5th ALA
The 5 Tenn regiments that lost flags to 14th CVI at G-burg
Stonewall brigade
Texas, dont mess with them.

[MarkTK36thIL]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

Problem solved. Previous post has been removed along with quote here.JK

You kidding me?

[Arch Campbell]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

1st Iowa Infantry- hardships and epic marches on the "Lyon Campaign," valor at Wilson's Creek. Fun impression to do (uniform? what uniform?)

2nd Iowa Infantry- charging the works at Donelson, V.P. Twombley and all that. Have not had a chance yet to portray the 2nd in my many years in the hobby but its on my CW "bucket list."

3rd Iowa Infantry- generally chewed up, one of the relatively rare FEDERAL units to be consolidated due to losses (with the 2nd.) Company K was a hometown unit (Cedar Falls.)

9th Iowa Infantry- epic march and heroism at Pea Ridge. Served the last 3 years of the war with "the other" Iowa Brigade, Williamson's. Company G a hometown unit (Waterloo,) 5 members buried about 10 blocks from my house.

11th Iowa Infantry- Hairy Nation "base" impression, so a no-brainer. Valor at Shiloh, Atlanta. member of the famous Crocker's Iowa Brigade.

19th Iowa Infantry- that charge at Prairie Grove gives me goose bumps.

31st Iowa Infantry- a little personal nostalgia here, this was the impression of my first reenacting unit. brave charges at Chickasaw Bluffs, Lookout Mountain. Possibly the first unit in Columbia SC (disputed with another Iowa reg.,) definitely one of the regiments charged with provost that first night in Columbia- you know, the night it burned. Companies A & B were hometown units, B's flag still hangs in a museum 1/2 mile from my house.

39th Iowa Infantry- I have a thing for Corse, and his ear (what was left of it.)

1st Northeast Missouri Home Guard- victors against all odds at Athens. Great fun to portray, for the same reason as I listed for the 1st Iowa. progenitor unit of--

21st Missouri Infantry- first full regiment into the fray at Pittsburg Landing. Quite possibly the worst disciplined regiment in the entire United States Army.

CS

I don't generally like to celebrate rebels, but I do have a soft spot for the Missouri State Guard. There were some who accomplished more, but name one that did so with less.

[Steve Acker]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

My favorites are based as much on the quality of the unit accounts I've read as their battlefield efforts.
CS
12th Virginia Infantry
7th Mississippi Infantry
5th Texas Infantry
Jeff Davis Artillery



Federal
16th Michigan Infantry
6th Wisconsin Infantry
5th New Jersey Infantry
8th Ohio Infantry

And of course the scores of other amazing units I have yet to study or have forgotten about at this time. Oh yea, 16th Mississippi Infantry. See I told ya.

Steve Acker

[Remember1864]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

For starters...The 1st Maine Hvy Arty for their action near the New Market Racecourse, (Petersburg, VA), at 4:30pm on 18 June 1864.

The 18th and 30th Illinois Vol Inf...ancestral ties.

[NC5thCav]

Re: What are your favorite WBTS units.

My favorites:
Confederate
5th battalion North Carolina cavalry, Department of East Tennessee(ancestors)

58th North Carolina infantry, AoT(ancestors)

6th North Carolina cavalry, AoT(ancestors)

54th North Carolina infantry, ANV(ancestors)

55th North Carolina infantry, ANV(ancestors)

6th North Carolina infantry, ANV(ancestors)

Union
3rd North Carolina mounted infantry, US, East Tennessee District(ancestors)

46th Pennsylvania, AoP and Army of the Cumberland

Iron Brigade