Don Troiani is well-known for his historically accurate military paintings. An expert researcher with an extensive library and impressive private artifact study collections of uniforms, equipage, insignia, and weapons, Troiani has served as consultant on films and television programs. His work has appeared in many publications and is represented in numerous museums, including the Smithsonian’s Museum of History and Technology, the US Marine Corps Museum, the Museum of the American Revolution, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He lives in Southbury, CT.

Ron Field has published numerous books on military subjects and has taught history in the UK, was a Fulbright scholar, and was elected Fellow of the Company of Military Historians. He has studied Civil War subjects for more than forty years and his many published works include books on Civil War subjects. He lives in Cheltenham, England.

Introduction

Early War Militia and Volunteers

8th Company, 7th New York State Militia, 1861

Charleston Zouave Cadets

6th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia

Stanly Marksmen, Company H, 14th North Carolina Infantry

Clinch Rifles, Georgia Militia, April 1861

1st Rhode Island Detached Militia, 1861

Flat River Guards, Company B, 6th North Carolina State Troops Infantry

2nd New Hampshire Volunteers

Private, Company I, 4th Virginia Infantry, Liberty Hall Volunteers

71st New York State Militia

8th Georgia Infantry, Company E, Miller Rifles

Clinch Rifles, Georgia Militia, April 1861

1st Minnesota Infantry, July 1861

1st Regiment South Carolina Rifles, 1861

8th and 20th New York Volunteer Infantry, 1861

79th New York Infantry (Highlanders), 1861

12th Illinois Infantry, 1st Scottish Regiment

Garibaldi Legion, 1861

39th New York Volunteers (Garibaldi Guard)

11th Mississippi Infantry (Van Dorn Reserves)

41st New York Volunteers (De Kalb Regiment)

Irish Jasper Greens, Lance Corporal, 1861

17th Mississippi Infantry, Company I, Pettus Rifles

Lynchburg Rifles, Company E, 11th Virginia Infantry, July 1861

Third Alabama Infantry, Company A, Mobile Cadets, 1861

Sumter Light Guard, Company K, 4th Georgia Infantry, 1861

3rd Missouri Infantry

Zouaves and Chasseurs

5th New York Infantry (Duryée’s Zouaves)

Salem Zouaves, 8th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1861

Tiger Rifles, Wheat’s 1st Special Battalion,1861

9th New York Infantry (Hawkins Zouaves)

6th New York (Wilson’s Zouaves), 1861

Coppens’s Battalion of Louisiana Zouaves

14th New York State Militia (14th Brooklyn)

New York Independent Battalion (Enfants Perdue)

69th New York State Militia, Company K

Maryland Guard

76th Pennsylvania (Keystone Zouaves)

11th Indiana Volunteers (Wallace’s Zouaves)

34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Piatt’s Zouaves)

10th New York (National Zouaves)

69th Pennsylvania Infantry, Companies I and K

65th New York Infantry (1st US Chasseurs)

74th New York Volunteers (Zouave Company)

41st New York Volunteers (De Kalb Zouaves)

72nd Pennsylvania (Baxter’s Zouaves)

53rd New York Volunteers (D’Epineuil’s Zouaves)

62nd New York Volunteers (Anderson Zouaves), Company I (Advanced Guard)

95th Pennsylvania Infantry (Gosline Zouaves)

18th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1862

114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Collis Zouaves)

109th Pennsylvania Infantry (Curtin Light Guards)

146th New York Infantry (Zouaves)

146th New York Volunteers, officer, 1864–1865

164th New York Infantry (Corcoran Legion)

33rd New Jersey (Second Zouaves)

17th New York Veteran Volunteers

10th United States Colored Troops

5th New York Veteran Volunteer Zouaves

165th New York Infantry (Duryée’s Zouaves)

155th Pennsylvania Infantry

The Infantry

55th New York (Lafayette Guard), 1861

12th Tennessee Infantry

5th New Jersey Volunteers, 1863

10th Tennessee Irish Legion

6th Texas Infantry, Company G, Travis Rifles

16th New York Infantry, Corporal

North Carolina Infantry Corporal, 1861

Confederate Infantry Officer, 1862

56th New York Volunteers (Tenth Legion), Sharpshooter Company

Cherokee Rangers, Company I, 19th Alabama Infantry

28th Virginia Infantry colour bearer

4th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Division, 1863

The Texas Brigade

Colour Bearer of the 1st Texas Infantry

62nd Pennsylvania Infantry

42nd Pennsylvania Volunteers (Bucktails)

23rd Arkansas Infantry, 1862

2nd Wisconsin Volunteers

27th Virginia Infantry colour sergeant, December 1862

19th Tennessee Regiment, 1862

14th Mississippi Infantry, 1862

11th Mississippi colour bearer

37th New York (Irish Rifles)

The Irish Brigade Band

15th Wisconsin Infantry

Confederate Drummer

45th New York Infantry, 1863

53rd Georgia Infantry, 1863

16th Georgia Infantry, Private, Co. A, 1863

21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

47th North Carolina Infantry, Corporal, Company A, Chicora Guards, Spring 1863

20th Tennessee Infantry, Summer 1863

29th Alabama Infantry

76th Ohio Infantry

88th New York Infantry

1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, US Colored Troops

54th Massachusetts Infantry drummer

4th United States Colored Troops, Private, 1864

203rd Pennsylvania Infantry (Birney’s Sharpshooters)

2nd Maryland Infantry, C.S.A., 1864.

Confederate States Infantry Officer, 1865

31st United States Colored Troops

The Cavalry

6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 1861–1865

Sussex Light Dragoons

4th Virginia Cavalry (Black Horse Troop)

Trooper, 12th Virginia Cavalry, 1863

Bolivar Troop, Mississippi Cavalry

Union Cavalry Bugler

2nd Missouri Cavalry (Merrill’s Horse)

1st North Carolina Cavalry, October 1861

1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, Company D, 1861

Fremont Body Guard

Mounted Rifle Rangers, January 1862

1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles, 1862

2nd Kentucky Cavalry (Morgan’s Raiders)

Trooper, 7th Virginia Cavalry, 1863

Guidon Bearer, Co. D, 4th United States Cavalry, 1863

5th Texas Mounted Rifles Lancers

34th Virginia Cavalry Battalion Private, Gettysburg, July 1863

8th Texas Cavalry, Terry’s Texas Rangers

4th Tennessee Cavalry, Black Trooper, Chickamauga, September 1863

3rd New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry (Hussars) (Butterflies)

Quantrill’s Guerrillas

First Sergeant of the 6th Regiment United States Colored Cavalry

The Artillery

Washington Artillery of New Orleans, 1860–1861

Washington Artillery of New Orleans, 1861–1862

First Company, Richmond Howitzers, 1863

Confederate Artillery Officer, Spring 1863

Corporal, Battery D, 4th New Jersey Light Artillery, December 1864

Watson’s Battery, 1861

2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 1864

11th United States Colored Heavy Artillery, Private, 1864

Crutchfield’s Virginia Heavy Artillery

Commanders and Special Branches of Service

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant

Generals Robert E. Lee and A. P. Hill, Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

Lieutenant Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain

Jackson and Pendleton

Colonel John B. Gordon

1st Regiment Engineer Troops Army of Northern Virginia

Army of the Potomac Pioneers, Summer 1863

United States Marine Corps, 1861–1865

Confederate States Marine Corps, 1861–1865

Berdan’s Sharpshooters, 1862

Berdan’s Sharpshooters, 1863–1864

Officer of Berdan’s Sharpshooters, 1862

Veteran Reserve Corps, Corporal, 8th Regiment, March 1864

Corporal, 3rd US Veteran Volunteers, Summer 1865

Federal Army Surgeon 1861–1863

Confederate States Medical Service

Sergeant of Ordnance, 1863

Union Army Chaplain