Civil War Formation Questions

[O`Finnegan]

Hello! I'm Trying To Find Diagrams Of Formations For Civil War Regiments.. Does Anyone Know Of Any Diagrams? Such As: Where The Flag Bearer, Captain And Sgts Where Positioned? And How They Went From Marching To A Battle Line?

[Millander]

hmm Caseys school of the Battalion would be what you would be looking for.

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[Duuring]

So many officers...

[Millander]

Well this is supoused to be 1,000 men.

[Duuring]

But regiments on average did not have that number, did they?

Dutch (or well, French) batallion school was designed for around 850 men, but the average strenght was 670ish. And it did not have a Colonel, Majors or quatermasters in the field. Of course, they ran into problems when lt.colonels were dropping like flies during the Campaign...

[Noodlenrice]

But regiments on average did not have that number, did they?

Dutch (or well, French) batallion school was designed for around 850 men, but the average strenght was 670ish. And it did not have a Colonel, Majors or quatermasters in the field. Of course, they ran into problems when lt.colonels were dropping like flies during the Campaign...

Lol some had only 100 and had captains leading the regiment (the really low ones like the 1st Minnesota, and the entire stonewall brigade regiments) But Most Confederate regients were bigger because they put new recruits with veterans making the veteran regiments bigger than the Union ones. The Union ones went all skeleton with many losses after many campaigns

[Millander]

But regiments on average did not have that number, did they?

Dutch (or well, French) batallion school was designed for around 850 men, but the average strenght was 670ish. And it did not have a Colonel, Majors or quatermasters in the field. Of course, they ran into problems when lt.colonels were dropping like flies during the Campaign...

Well of course and there would naturally be less officers. I was responding to saying how there were so many officers.