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Vermont fielded 17 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 3 light artillery batteries, 1 heavy artillery company, 3 companies of sharpshooters, and 2 companies of frontier cavalry. Instead of replacing units as they were depleted, Vermont regularly provided recruits to bring the units in the field back up to normal strength.
Two Vermont units pictured during the Civil War in 1861. List of military units raised by the state of Vermont during the American Civil War.
Several regiments of U. S. Army troops were raised, as were militia companies for the defense of the state's northern border areas. Vermont troops served primarily in the military campaigns in northern New York.
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Vermont mustered in more than 28,100 men to serve in Vermont volunteer units plus an additional 5,000 Vermonters served in the units of other states, in the U.S. Army or in the U.S. Navy.. Vermont had "17 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 3 light artillery batteries, 1 heavy artillery company, 3 companies of sharpshooters, and 2 companies of ...
Most units were numbered, however, some were named. See the table below for lists of the regiments, battalions, batteries, and unassigned companies. The information in the lists of Vermont Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailorswebsite. This website can also be searched by the name of a soldier.
Cemetery Database, Vermont in the Civil War (accessed 20 September 2011) has links to many Vermont cemeteries, National cemeteries, and cemeteries in other states, as well as other categories of bu...
The 1890 Census Veterans Schedules, the "Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War" (NARA M123) are available online for the state of Vermont. The schedules list Union veterans and their widows. For more information on the 1890 Veterans Schedules see Union Census Records...
Service and pension records are available at the National Archives. Indexes to service and pension records of Union Army soldiers are available on film at the National Archives and the FamilySearch Library. FamilySearch has an online Index to Pension Applications of veterans who served in the US Army between 1861-1917 is available on FamilySearch. ...
Vermont maintained a soldiers home for veterans in Bennington, Vermont. Reports of Vermont Old Soldiers Home was established in 1884. The Vermont Department of Libraries has copies of these reports in: 1. Vermont. Old Soldiers Home. Reports. (State Library V362.8 V59re, not at FamilySearchLibrary.) The reports include the soldier’s name, unit, disa...
A state roster of soldiers is: 1. Vermont. Adjutant General’s Office. Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers: And Lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, 1861–66. Montpelier, Vermont: Watchman Publishing, 1892. (FamilySearch Library book 974.3 M2va; film 1036000, item8.) This source is...
An important inventory for finding Civil War military histories is: 1. A Guide to the Microfiche Edition of Civil War Unit Histories: Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives. Part 2, The Union—New England. Bethesda, Maryland.: University Publications of America, 1993. (FS Library book 973 M2cwu pt.2.) Vermont units are listed on pages 73–78. T...
Vermont in the Civil War [database on-line]. N.p., 2013 (cited 22 January 2013). This site includes the names of over 35,500 soldiers, sailors, and marines including their town, regiment, and compa...Vermont furnished over 32,669 soldiers to the Union during the war, organized into 18 regiments of infantry, 1 regiment of cavalry, 1 regiment and 1 company of heavy artillery, 3 batteries of light artillery, and three companies of sharpshooters.
At the outbreak of the war, the 17,000-man regular army included five regiments of cavalry, scattered in small detachments mostly among the frontier posts and forts, from Mexico on the south to Canada on the north and from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast.
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