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The
ioneer rigade
The
regimental colonels detached their best, most talented men, in the expectation
that they could use their pioneers as they saw fit. It should be
considered to be quite a compliment to your great grandfather that he should
have been selected for the Pioneer Brigade. It meant that his colonel
thought highly of him.
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Philip Shiman
It was on Friday, April 12, 1861 at 4 am, that the first shell from
Columbiad no. 1 in Charleston Harbor was fired and arguably inaugurated
the most momentous event in American history. When the lanyard was
pulled, the "Great Experiment" of American democracy was put to its sternest
test. Still in its infancy in 1860, this democracy was threatened with
dissolution by the exact inalienable right it was founded on to promote
its existence. That right was self-determination; the ability to
choose one's own station in life and to elect one's own governing bodies.
But by the watershed year of 1861, American democracy had yet to face its
sternest test. As the London Times noted, "so short lived has been
the American Union that men who saw its rise may live to see its fall."
In the words of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War would be waged to preserve
"the last great nation on earth".
At the onset of the war, the first need for both combatants was to raise
a sizable army to prosecute it. The American regular army numbered
between 16,000 to 25,000 at the time of Fort Sumter, hardly the numbers
needed to fight this conflict. To fill the Northern ranks, Lincoln
made an initial call for volunteers on April 14, 1861 for 75,000 men under
a ninety day term of service. His next call on May 3 was for 45,000
three year enlistments. The expectation shared in the North and the South
was that this would be a ninety days war with one climactic battle to determine
the outcome. The Union objective was to defea"
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