Civil War - Union Army "The Iron Brigade" - A Short History
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My great great uncle was a Sergeant in the 19th Indiana. He was killed on the first day at Gettysburg during the fighting near the Lutheran Seminary. He still rests on the battlefield today, buried in the Soldiers National Cemetery.
My great great uncle John Callahan fought in the Indiana 19th regiment. They probably knew one another. 😎🪶🇺🇲
I had one 3rd great in the Iron Brigade I'm pretty sure he was 19th Indiana too who knows they probably met or knew each other lol. Another was with the 1st New York Light Artillery and another was a Zouave in the 2nd Delaware.
Proud to be a Wisconsinite! Forward! The Iron Brigade Forever!
dont you got a cow to milk or somethin
A Confederate at Gettysburg was heard to say "T'aint no militia! It's them damned black hat fellers!" While John Gibbon was a hardass regular army soldier, he found out praise and reward worked better with volunteer regiments than the harsh discipline of regular army units and made his men feel special by issuing them the Hardee hat and gaiters to set them apart. He also kept his men from throwing away blankets and coats that many green units would rid themselves of for weight while on their first marches by charging them for any missing items in their kits and clothing. Some of the men hated the gaiters though, and one morning Gibbon woke up to find his horse had been decked out with gaiters. Years later at a Brigade re-union Gibbon asked "I want to know who the bastard was that put those gaiters on my horse!"
that was pure cheese that they did that to his horse.
He took it in good humor-but had that happened in a regular army unit heads would have rolled. Gibbon was quite a man-respected by Natives he fought later as a man of his word.
@Tom Servo - Brilliant. xD
What do you mean by decked out by gaiters?
@@damiansaucedo9951 Gibbon's men snuck into the corral where his horse was and slipped gaiters on each leg. (They hated the gaiters because they were white canvas and subsequently got dirty very easily which required endless cleaning.) However, these little details Gibbon drilled into them made them one of best fighting units in the Army of the Potomac. Sadly, they got wrecked at Gettysburg and weren't ever quite the same afterward.
I just visited Bayfield, Wisconsin up on the shores of Lake Superior and let me tell you it was a harsh harsh climate. Even in the height of summer, the thunderstorms were punishing. And the winters there are absolutely brutal. Displayed were pictures of early settlers and fisher folk. These men and women survived frozen winters 6 months of the year and hot humid summers the other 6. So when they say "Iron Brigade of the West" I get it. These guys were immune to punishment.
Proud Wisconsinite!
Hell yeah on Wisconsin
FORWARD!
Me too
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Proud Michigander! I’m very lucky that every Memorial Day my dad taught me to decorate the graves of the men of the 24th Michigan that are buried near by.
Fellow proud Michigander as well! Found a couple of 24th graves in my area too which surprised me because I live in the Lansing area and the 24th were more Detroit area
Another Michigander here! I work downtown Detroit and I love all of the statues and plaques for the iron brigade down there!
Sarah.. I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan. LOVE Michigan.. I live in Florida now. Michigan will always be my heart💙💙
As I am I, we visited the site also of the 24th Michigan.
I was fortunate enough to have a Gettysburg tour guide who was a literal civil war human encyclopedia explain the iron brigade's importance in the battle. I stood exactly where my Michigan countrymen held the line. It was one of the most fascinating experiences I've ever had. What all those men went through is hard to comprehend.
As a re-enactor I was a member of the 24th Michigan Regiment of Volunteers...great experience and we also were extras in the GETTYSBURG movie where we shot the Pickett's Charge scenes...as both Union and Confederate soldiers!!!
One of my favorite civil war tales- A rebel infantryman is marching with his company towards a fierce battle, he's expecting to run into federal regulars with a reputation of inability to stand combat for very long and poorly lead. But when the rebel can see through the gunsmoke, he doesn't like what he sees. "Its those damn black hat men" he says, they all know who they are facing, having met before. The Iron Brigade faces them, fierce, experienced and hard fighting western men. Men from Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan companies well led and known for their skill in battle. Never was there a Confederate who looked at them without dismay... That's my opinion on the matter.
The Wisconsin regiments were the exception (and then only once) to the general rule for the Yankee armies. Usually the Yankee states would not send replacements. Rather, exhausted regiments were disbanded and the state incorporated volunteers into new regiments. The Rebs did the opposite. They'd pull a shot-up regiment out of the line, and send it to its home territory to recruit and train new men into the regiment. At Herbst's Wood at Gettysburg, the 26th NC had just gotten back for recruiting and refitting in NC. The regiment was about 75% green. They met the virgins of the 25th Michigan and the two regiments fought to mutual annihilation. The 19th Indiana was amalgamated into the 20th Indiana and transferred to the II Corps. Not only was the brigade broken up but the I Corps was disbanded. On June 30, 1863, the I Corps was (through attrition) the smallest Corps in the Army of the Potomac. On July 1 the overall Corps took 65% casualties.
The 24th Michigan Black Hats were "BAD ASS"! I'm proud to live in the same area they were from!
On my great cousins side his father in-laws family where all in the Iron Brigade. His sisters family married into them. All fought for the Iron Brigade.
Anyone who says midwesterners aren't shit just needs to learn of the iron brigade. Wisconsinites formed one of the most big balls brigades in the union army
Rufus Dawes (great Grandson of William Dawes) led the 6th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War. He survived Gettysburg
Also later father of Charles, vice-president under COOLIDGE.
He commanded the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment of the Iron Brigade, leading the counter-attack on Confederate troops sheltering in the Railroad Cut at Gettysburg on the first day. I only saw it in the Ridley Scott docudrama "Gettysburg" where it was claimed his unit killed or wounded 600 Confederate troops (200 taken prisoner) losing about 200 men himself, half the size of his unit. They made a crazy 'suicide attack' over open ground against the Confederates who were in cover in the railroad cut.
@@AudieHolland Rufus Dawes was probably the best regimental officer of the brigade to survive Gettysburg. His 6th Wisconsin charged the railroad cut and captured the better part of two CSA regiments. As they made the 125 yard charge over open ground they lot a man for every yard. Oddly, Dawes did not "federalize" in the winter of 1863-64 and left the army a hero and became president of a college a dozen years later.
November 8, 2021-
I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan.. LOVE MICHIGAN!
This told the story like a doctor telling a patient he had a disease. The men of the West, for sure the 2nd WVI were a bunch of tough Farmers, lumbermen, and laborers who were the badasses that raided a brewery, before leaving Camp Randall.
Daryl Morning So were the men of the South. But that doesn't matter in the heat of battle. The Iron Brigade was unique, unlike any other Westerner or Southerner.
@@WestTNConfed My comment was more for the lack of "raw life" in the narration than to besmirch any soldier of that war. I respect any man who went to war under any flag unless he has done something to dishonor himself. The South soldiers, in general, were no exception. It takes a man to stand shoulder to shoulder as other men don't the same shoot at you. The narration here, was dry. I felt nothing of his words even though I am a great follower of the way these men lived and fought becoming legends in their sacrifice for our nation.
Daryl Morning Very true
Fitting that the one Union regiment at Gettysburg that suffered even more and fought as valiantly was, althought not of the Iron Brigade, also westerners: respect to the 1st Minnesota.
Wow, that was awesome. Thank you. My mom's family is from Wisconsin.
19th Indiana
The soldier in my avatar is one of my g-g-grandfathers that fought in the 60th Georgia Infantry of the Lawton/Gordon/Evans Georgia Brigade. They fought against the Iron Brigade at Brawner's Farm. They faced them again in Miller's Cornfield during the Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam. They next fought against the Iron Brigade at the Battle of the Wilderness. The Iron Brigade was breaking through the Confederate line of Richard Ewell's Division. Ewell called on Brigadier John Gordon's Georgia Brigade to plug the hole and save the day. Gordon quickly formed his men, and sent them forward where they crashed into the Iron Brigade and routed it.
I also have an ancestor and relatives in the 26th North Carolina that faced the Iron Brigade at Gettysburg. My kin were all killed, wounded, or captured.
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My maternal grandmother passed down the stories of her grandfather and great uncles with the 8 Alabama, and 36 Alabama. They were always hungry. My paternal side ate better with 5 Washington artillery. What a tough generation
Proud Hoosier!
Proud Hoosier! I recently learned that one Company of the 19th Indiana Infantry were made up of volunteers from around where I grew up. I’ve been trying to learn more about them ever since.
My great great uncle fought in the Indiana regiment. They had inherited slaves in North Carolina, and turned away from that and came to Indiana just before the war broke out.
Slight correction, unless it is a rumor; the name 'Iron Brigade' was supposedly given by McClellan.
I believe your right. And if im not mistaken his great-grandfather rode with Jefferson
Even a 12 year old Scotsman there's one brigade name that anyone in Europe knows if they know anything about the civil war.
My ancestors can be traced back to both the Union and Confederate armies. It was so brutal we dont realize this or tend to forget due to time. One was with the 24th Michigan, the other with the Missouri State Guard. The one with Michigan survived the war somehow, which is pretty amazing when you hear how many were lost.
I had three relatives in the 24th Michigan one was killed at Gettysburg one was captured and died at the Florence stockade and the 3rd committed suicide in a asylum in traverse city after the war
Awesome.
These videos always make me hungry AF
Very nice and informative.racing lice nice.proud of one of my ancestors who fought for the Union.A Michigan unit
Great video , but when are y'all gonna make the 3rd volume of evolution of the blue and tie grey?
Great video, thanks for uploading. Im painting a 28mm Union army at the moment and Im basing it on the Black Hats, lets hope they do well when I get them out on the gaming table!
what ever side would have invented campbells chunky soup early would have won the war
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've read that the brigade was issued the hardee hats and frock coats before Gibbon took command.
"Here come them damn black hat fellers!"
Next one could you do Archer's Brigade "The Tennessee Brigade?"
These were country boys like many of the Confederates.
Yeoman like the Confederates.
The uniforms look a littlebit like the danish uniforms of the 2nd Danish-Prussian war.
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Union Soldier: *yes*
My GGGREATGRANDFATHER was in the 24th MI.
I grew up in Detroit back in the 1960's and 70's and many of the 24th Michigan Infantry came from the same area where I lived. I had a relative who served in the 24th Michigan, Levi Freeman. and was wounded on the 1st of July 1863. He survived the war while another relative, Patrick Timmons, of the 19th Indiana Infantry was MIA most likely KIA and buried in the National Cemetery under and unknown marker. Iron Brigade forward! The Army of the Potomac's Best Brigade!
Iron Brigade vs Stone wall brigade.
Iron brigade vs Shelby's iron brigade
Stonewall's men fired on them expecting them to run. They didn't expect them deploy and come at them.
Stonewall's men were just lucky it was the Irish Brigade under Meagher, he would've charged.
Tasting history... is a realy cool youtube channel where he did make hard tack
Anyone else notice Gen. Gibbons looks like Christian Bale when he was in "Hostiles" ? At 1 min. in
8:14 is the character select screen
So they are pretty much the old guard
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I'm a New Englander, eager to learn about this Union Brigade that would shame me...
Three Wisconsin regiments were veterans of First Bull Run and had been somewhat reinforced over the winter. The Wisconsin regiments were all armed with the M1840 smoothbore musket. It fired a .69 cal ball and two 12 ga. buckshot. Absolute murder at close range but lucky to hit the ground outside 100 yards. The Indiana and Michigan regiments were armed with M1861 Springfield .57 cal rifles. Better long range weapons but slower loading than the smoothbores.
2:00 the Jack Black Hat Brigade?
That guy does look like Jack Black lol
How come barely anyone talks about JO Shelby's Iron Brigade
Because it served in the Trans-Mississippi theater. The Trans-Mississippi and Western theaters never get the attention they deserve.
The Confederates could never sustain those types of casualties and survive.
Hoods brigade and the 26th North Carolina?
Chad iron brigade enjoyer vs virgin stonewall brigade fan
The iron brigade?what american state is the iron brigade?
They were out of three states in the then west now upper Midwest/Great Lakes region, Michigan (I’m a proud Michigander a proud student of Michigan in the civil war), Wisconsin and Indiana.
What happened to our country?😞
Poles fighting in the armies of the Confederation and the Union were most often idealists. They enlisted in the army not to make money, but to fight for a just cause, which was the abolition of slavery, and in the case of the southern states - the right to independence [101]. Only Poles who were already settled in the United States were able to afford such motives. For newcomers, the opportunity to improve their economic situation was crucial, pozdrawiam z PL!.
Poland only went down quickly in 1939 because of their crappy generals. In 1920, they had saved the West from the Bolsheviks. One of the generals whose command got spanked was Stalin..
Judy S. It was more because the nature of their alliance with France & Britain pushed them to defend their outer borders rather than holding a tighter core.
Hardee was a traitor
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Hardy was a traitor
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Shout-out to the Iron Brigade!
I'm a 6th generation Wisconsite, the Iron brigade was as tough as Wisconsin- people are used to hard work, a tough climate and know how to hunt