Considered traitors by their Southern comrades, these reluctant Union-men became known as white-washed rebels or even galvanized Yankees a reference to the process in which steel is surface-treated to prevent corrosion. Photos: Rays thump Yankees at Disney Yesterday Sports Guide to Plant City's Strawberry Festival, one of the largest festivals in the nation Yesterday Life & Culture Advertisement There has not been much written since then so this remains the primary source of information. I discovered the Galvanized Yankee connection because a librarian kept insisting to me the pension record of my family member was for a Federal pension, Since I now know of unit designations of the Galvanized Yankee Units, I have found another family member who was also a Galvanized Yankee. Hundreds accepted the offer. Volunteers, one of the units of "Galvanized Yankees," or Confederate prisoners who earned their release from prison by volunteering for Western duty. Three companies of the 6th U.S.V.I. A succession of units served at Fort Ellsworth, including Company C of the Second U.S. Companies A and B were stationed at Fort Kearney; C and D at Cottonwood, Colorado; E and F at Fort Rankin; and G and H at Julesburg, Colorado, protecting overland mail routes from Indian attacks. The two companies marched to. Among them was a contingent from the 3rd United States Volunteer Infantry (USVI). The four companies from Fort Delaware were recruited by regimental commander Lt. Col. Capt. These men were sent to the Union prison in Alton, Illinois, as deserters. Organized as Burke's Battalion, 10th Tennessee, they were made part of an ad hoc defense force assembled by Lt. Col. William W. Wier and sent by train towards Tupelo, Mississippi, to repel a raid along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad by two brigades of Union cavalry under the command of Brig. The state of Tennessee replaced losses in at least one of its regiments from the ranks of Yankee prisoners too. The majority of prisoners who enlisted came from Rock Island, Alton, Camp Douglas, For a brief picture of Galvanized Yankees sent to Ft. Rice in the Dakota Territories from Point Lookout Camp for Confederate Prisoners in Maryland read, Cottages: A Chesapeake Bay Novel by Paula Farrar. In the process the surface color of the metal is altered, but underneath the coating the steel is unchanged. There were the equivalent of up to 8 whole regiments of soldiers recruited from southern POW ranks, with 5 regiments actually being considered official under the USVI (United States Volunteer Infantry) program. Dimon was eager to test his men in battle, and the unit was sent to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where they fired a few shots, seized horses and bales of cotton. Permanently detached and given the designation 1st Independent Battalion Ohio Cavalry, it arrived at Fort Laramie on May 30, 1862. It was also the only unit to travel to New Mexico. Dee Brown's history of Confederate POWs who took the oath of allegiance and joined Federal regiments policing the prairie in order to get out of prison. by: Leckie, William H. Published: (1963) Crimsoned prairie; the wars between the United States and the Plains Indians during the winning . Though some took the opportunity to escape back to the Confederacy, most served bravely valiantly under the extreme conditions of the wild west. The book primarily draws from primary sources and has many appropriate citations. Life at Fort Rice proved to be a challenge, as the post had not been fully completed and its buildings being made of cottonwood, a very inferior material. He drilled his former Confederates & Unionist Louisiana volunteers into a first-rate regiment. Volunteers and commanded by Northern officers, to the frontier to protect the trails, telegraph lines, and U.S. Mail routes. Volunteers and were designated the 1st Independent Company, U.S.V..[n 20] The 1st Independent Company remained on duty in the District of Minnesota until mustered out on November 16, 1865. (O.R. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. The Galvanized Yankees. They moved by the steamboat Effie Deans and by forced march to Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, arriving there October 17 for garrison duty. Released October 17, 1864 after taking the Oath of allegiance and joining US Army. IT WASJULY26, 1865 when a force of 3,000 Sioux and Cheyenne descended onto the U.S. Army outpost at Platte Bridge in Wyoming. Many if not most of the original 228 Confederate prisoners recruited at Camp Douglas in early 1862 to the Union side were likely from the 10th Tennessee, and this may have been the origin of O'Neill's request to recruit from Union prisoners. The Galvanized Yankees were ordered westward. [22] Companies A through G reassembled at Fort Kearny in August 1866 and mustered out on October 11. Regiments containing former Confederates were . The Galvanized soldiers turned from fighting a war to divide the United States and joined a cause that endeavored to expand and strengthen the nation. Colonel Dimon was inexperienced in dealing with Native Americans. The recommendation for clemency was resisted by the Judge Advocate General's Office in Washington, D.C., which advocated that the former Union soldiers be tried for desertion, citing testimony from Union officers at Egypt Station that they resisted at the battle until their ammunition was exhausted. The Galvanized Yankees by D.Alexander Drown. Save the date to save big! Initially, the Effie Deans were supposed to take the regiment to their new post; however, the Missouri River was low that year, and the 600 men were forced to march a distance of over 270 miles. Excerpted from The Museum Gazette, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, National Park Service. he received a regular commission as a 1st lieutenant in the 18th Infantry. About 600 of them. National Park Service publication on Andersonville National Historic Site. Volunteers for service in the West. They garrisoned frontier forts which were low on manpower at a time of general unrest among American Indians and were stationed along the Missouri River and Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. Thank you. [6], In January 1863, following issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, the United States began to actively recruit black soldiers. Approximately 5,600 former Confederate soldiers enlisted in the "United States Volunteers", organised into six regiments of infantry between January 1864 and November 1866. I have the US Army pension record for a family member (with a CSA record) who drew a Federal Pension for a disability, apparently for an injury received in a battle with Indians in Colorado. New Rollbacks & more drop Oct. 10-13. All that stood between the raiders and the vital 1,000-foot long river crossing that connected the territories of Oregon and Montana was a detachment of 120 lightly armed troops. mm. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the authors personal collection. Worst of all was the uninterrupted immigration of new settlers, which eventually forced the Sioux to give up nearly 900,000 acres of their reservation lands for 30 cents an acre. The soldiers weapon, the Springfield rifle, was ineffective against the Sioux, as it was a single-shot muzzle-loader that required fifteen seconds to reload. The 10th Tennessee Irish Volunteers drew mostly from recent Irish immigrants who had been captured in Union uniform. [32], Company C of the 4th Regiment Infantry, Delaware Volunteers is claimed to have been recruited in 1862 or 1863 from prisoners at Fort Delaware, but claims have not been substantiated through checks of muster rolls. Once on the battlefield, many deserted, surrendered and in some cases mutinied. later he was assigned to the 1st arkansas light artillery. 30 December 1871, USS Pensacola. Assigned to the District of Eastern Virginia, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, it moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where on orders of General Grant it was relegated to provost duty there, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Volunteers, 1,000 men strong, boarded the ship Continental in August of 1864, sailed to New York, then traveled by train to Chicago. Binding Paperback Quantity-available 1 Seller Black Cat Hill Books Oregon City, Oregon, USA Seller rating : Description: New York, NY Curtis Books, 1963. They became known as "Galvanized Yankees," for swapping their gray uniforms for blue, and would serve a largely forgotten role in settling what became North Dakota. It was the 3rds first taste of combat as a unit. A number of Northern states even raised galvanized infantry units as well, along with cavalry and even artillery. "All hardcover, with Dust Jackets. L-R: Samuel Groah and Andrew Groah (Ancestry.com) On April 18, 1861, one day after Virginia voted to secede from the United States, the two Shenandoah Valley natives answered the call to arms. Elbert Sidney Dula Co. C, 60th NC Regiment, captured at Missionary Ridge, TN November, 1863. Amazingly, the 3rd USVI wasnt the only Yankee regiment to be made up of Confederate POWs. The other seven companies frequently changed stations, posted at some point to Camp Wardwell, Julesburg, and Fort Sedgwick, Colorado; Post Alkali, Fort Cottonwood, Mud Springs, Plum Creek, and Columbus, Nebraska; Fort Wallace, Kansas; and Fort Laramie, Fort Halleck, Fort Caspar, and Sweetwater Station, Territory of Idaho. Focuses on individual units of Confederate prisoners sworn into the Union army, mainly for Indian fighting in the West. A Galvanized Yankee On May 19, 1862, John Henry Smith of Catawba County was mustered into the Confederate army. Heavily outnumbered, the defenders withdrew to the relative safety of the bridge and continued the fight from there. Thornton, formerly a captain with the. Despite this, a number of ethnic regiments quietly drew replacements from the ranks Confederate prisoners, although their recruiting targeted only recent immigrants from those regiments respective old countries. After plying their way up the winding Missouri and marching the last 250 miles, the First U.S. Notable individuals associated with Fort Ellsworth include Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. Company H, 5th U.S.V.I. About the Book Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. [23][n 16], The 6th U.S.V.I. The battalion mustered out at Vicksburg on September 7, 1865. [10] At the same time, the use of "white-washed Rebels" as a reference came into being among Federal state regiments stationed on the frontier at the time when the 1st U.S.V.I. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some 228 prisoners of mostly Irish extraction were enlisted by Col. James A. Mulligan before the War Department banned further recruitment March 15. (Brown 1963 p. 162). Volunteers reached Fort Rice on October 17, 1864. Galvanized Yankees, Confederate prisoners of war who secured their release from prison by enlisting in the Union Army, were organized into six regiments of U. S. Volunteers between January 1864 and May 1865. At the end of hostilities it was assigned to the Department of Mississippi and garrisoned Natchez, Mississippi, through the summer of 1865. Also briefly mentions the occasional use of Union prisoners in Confederate forces. Publication Date: 1986-01-01. Historically, a policy was initiated early in 1864, which allowed Confederate POWs to be repatriated if they would serve as Union soldiers: labelled as 'galvanized Yankees'. The regiment waited at Portsmouth, Virginia, in hopes that more troops could be raised, but calls for men from the west led to its transfer to the frontier at the end of April 1865. 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