1st Nebraska Infantry Regiment
1st Nebraska Infantry Regiment | |
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Active | June 11, 1861, to November 6, 1863 |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Infantry |
Engagements | Battle of Fort Donelson Battle of Shiloh Siege of Corinth |
The 1st Nebraska Infantry Regiment was an
Service
When the war started,
After joining the Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant, the 1st Nebraska Infantry participated in the successful attack on Fort Donelson in Tennessee, fought at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, and took part in the Union advance on, and siege of, Corinth, Mississippi.[3] The unit then participated in several minor engagements in Missouri and Arkansas. The regiment was redesignated the 1st Nebraska Cavalry Regiment on November 6, 1863. It was transferred to the frontier to keep the Plains Indians in check. It was amalgamated with the 1st Nebraska Veteran Cavalry Battalion in 1865, and mustered out of the Union Army in 1866.[4]
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1370 men served in the 1st Nebraska Infantry/Cavalry.[5]
Commanders
- Colonel John Milton Thayer
- Lieutenant Colonel William McCord (commanded at the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh)
- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Livingston (commanded at the siege of Corinth)
See also
- List of Nebraska Civil War Units
- Nebraska in the American Civil War
Notes
References
- Scherneckau, August. Marching with the First Nebraska: a Civil War diary (2007). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
- The Civil War Archive
- Cromie, Alice. A Tour Guide to the Civil War (1992). Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, Inc.
- "First Nebraska Infantry reenactors website".
- Johnson, Harrison. Johnson's History of Nebraska (1880). Omaha, NE: Henry Gibson.