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NAPL season 1 saw the greatest regiment winning
Six years later
Quote from: Commander Bondage on January 03, 2016, 05:18:27 amSo when will it actually be playableI am guessing the summer or something like that.Alpha is released so it's definitely on its way.
So when will it actually be playable
THE SEVENTY-NINTH REGIMENT.Its Return to the City—Its Brilliant History and Heroic Service.As the sun was going down, one Sunday evening, three years since, the Seventy-ninth New-York (Highland) Regiment, clad in the ancient and picturesque costume of the Scottish Highlanders, passed down Broadway amid the plaudits and farewells of a loyal multitude. They were over a thousand bayonets strong; and there never marched to the field a thousand men braver, prouder, more intelligent and patriotic. Since that 2d of June, 1861, the Seventy-ninth Regiment have done an amount of soldierly service in varied and distant fields and campaigns that seem almost incredible. In Virginia, in South Carolina, in Maryland, in Mississippi, in Tennessee, in Kentucky, and again in Virginia, it has campaigned. It has served under MCDOWELL, MCCLELLAN, POPE and HUNTER; under BURNSIDE in Virginia, and under BURNSIDE in Tennessee. It has served under Brig.-Gen. GRANT, while he commanded at Vicksburgh; under Major-Gen. GRANT while he commanded in Tennessee: and under Lieut.-Gen. GRANT in his late operations in Virginia. It fought at the first Bull Run, at the second Bull Run, at the bloody battles of James Island, at South Mountain and Antietam, at Fredericksburgh, at Vicksburgh and Jackson, at Knoxville and at the Wilderness. These are the great actions in which it has taken part, but the minor though no less perilous fights in which it has been engaged are numerous as the men who at first filled its populous ranks.It has met with every variety of fortune, and seen every kind of warfare—open field fights, attacks upon fortifications, charges upon artillery, collisions with cavalry, bushwhacking and Indian fighting. It has besieged rebel strongholds, and has in turn withstood a rebel siege. It has been in brave victories, East and West, and has, on frequent fields, seen the tide of battle turn against itself, and against the armies of the Union.The exact number of men with which the Seventy-ninth left New-York was 1,012. It was an old Scottish militia regiment of this City, and was one of the two or three City militia regiments, which, as an organized body, volunteered for the war under the first impulse of patriotic enthusiasm produced by the rebel assault on Fort Sumter. Their term of enlistment was for two years; but, as there was a dispute with the authorities on this point, the regiment, with true soldierly spirit, agreed to serve out, and fight on for another year. Col. JAMES CAMERON (brother of the then Secretary of War) a gentlemen or large fortune and of American birth, though of strong Scottish feelings and character, was appointed Colonel of the regiment immediately after it reached Washington, and, as will be remembered, fell at the battle of Manassas while heroically leading his men. The distinguished Col. ISAAC I. STEVENS, who fell at the battle of Chantllly, was successor to Col. CAMERON, but he was soon promoted to the rank of Brigadier. Col. FARNSWORTH next assumed command, while the regiment was at Hilton Head, immediately after the capture of Port Royal. This officer left his position on account of ill health, and the command of it was assumed pro tem. by Lieut.-Col. MORRISON. From Port Royal, they returned to the Army of the Potomac, and were with Gen. POPE through his whole campaign. Here Col. FARNSWORTH was wounded and disabled, and the former Colonel (then Brigadier-General) STEVENS, as already mentioned, was killed at Chantilly. It was after several color sergeants had been shot that STEVENS seized the flag, and fell while bearing it aloft. From March, 1862, until the present time, the former Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment (MORRISON) an able, accomplished, and lion-hearted officer, has been at its head in all its engagements, and has on every occasion acquitted himself with the highest honor. He was wounded in the head at the battle of James Island, in which engagement the regiment lost 117 men, and was again wounded in the Wilderness on the 9th inst. The services of the Seventy-ninth [in Mc-CLELLAN'S campaign in Maryland, and in BURNSIDE'S campaign on the Rappadan neck, need not here be recapitulated, nor will we more than mention its labors on the Mississippi. Its magnificent defence of Fort Saunders, during LONGSTREET'S desperate assault on the works around Knoxville at the close of last year, in which assault, aided by BENJAMIN'S Battery, it repelled five regiments of rebels, must be fresh in the memories of all. After the raising of the siege of Knoxville, the regiment marched northward through Kentucky and reached Virginia in season to participate in the late battles of the Wilderness.What remains of this heroic regiment will arrive in this City to-day. The programme is that it will be received at 7 o'clock in the morning by the Caledonian Club, by the Sixty-ninth Regiment, Col. BAG- LEY the Fifty-fifth, Col. LE GAL, and Twenty- second Col. ASPINWALL. At 11 o'clock it will be reviewed by the Common Council, and then escorted to dinner at Jefferson Market Drill-room. No honors could be too great for a regiment with such a record as this one.
79th New York Highlanders
