Tim
Granpaw
Mon Feb 5 10:12:59 2001


Mike,

Thanks for all the great information and legwork. It is more than I would do for old Granpaw's memory. My last comments were not with you in mind. It is completely understood why you might not have included a green regiment in the Seven Days. Yesterday I told some guy Lee only had three daughters after a comment he made about one of his sons. You should have seen what he was trying to say. I was thinking about how they never married and was so interested in the reply, I completely forgot about one of my favorite cavalry brigadiers and his younger Washington artillery brother.

You may already know just about the same thing happened with the 47th & 48th. They were there just in time, but Jackson determined to leave them in Ashland on his way to Richmond. He picked them up on the way to Cedar Run after the Peninsula Campaign. You may already know they got a bit disturbed, since they were green, after the Virginians on the left caved to the pressure exerted by Banks.

It is great to get any and all information on these particular units regardless of content. I really do appreciate it.

BTW, the following is for all the others reading this thread and particularly the ones who are confused by all this and having a hard time with it.

Regiments, brigades and divisions is the organization of Civil War Corps or pre November 62' Confederate "Wings". A regiment was part of a brigade. The brigades were assigned to divisions. Regiments were not assigned to divisions directly apart from a brigade or without being attached, assigned or associated with some brigade. That's the way it is. It seems they reversed the designation of regiments and brigades in the organizational order years later.