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People often look down to some degree on elected officers in militaries. Pirate captains and quartermaster were elected. The Russian army was issued Petrograd order number one which included a directive to elect officers. The revolutions of 1918 and 1919 saw elected officers. Ukraine and Catalonia in anarchist movements saw them too. The Romans kinda elected officers too.

At least compared to other officers, do we know much about if they did about as well at least?

I was reading the text of John Brown's constitution and the bylaws that were adopted for a brigade and the officers were elected.

Elected officers tend to have a weak reputation like in the Russian Civil War, but at least compared with any other contemporaneous method, how well did they do?

A sword belt worn by U.S. Grant during the Civil War. Cool! But disappointed he wasn’t more prominently featured.

Hi ya’ll I am looking for a book that covers the lead up to the outbreak of the American Civil War that comprehensively goes over the causes of the war. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

currently looking for uniform references for a development project i'm currently working on for confederate uniforms. Union uniforms were pretty easy to find but im looking for a few specific units.

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heres some regiments im looking for
-1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment
- 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment

- 7th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

- 38th Georgia Infantry Regiment

- 27th Virginia Infantry Regiment

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if they didn't have their own specific uniform, could you please include the insignia and/or banner that they used?

1. When West Virginia split off from Virginia, was that seperation recognized by the CSA or did they still claim to control the part that split off?

I've always wondered what the legal status of West Virginia was from the CSA's point of view.

2. What happen to the ranks granted by the CSA after the war ended? If I had to guess, then I would say that US did not recognize any military ranks granted by the CSA, but I've never seen anything regarding this.

The US's official view on the CSA is that they were never a legitiment government, so that leads me to beleive that the rabks they issued were also illegitiment.

Hey all!

I was wondering if there were any subscribers of Civil War Times in here. I recently (October) subscribed to Print & Digital issues, but to date have only received one digital issue and nada in the mail. HistoryNet has not answered any of my messages, emails, posts about the missing issues, and in the meantime, their website has been updated to state they are not taking any new orders. It is also no longer possible to log into my account to see the status of my subscription. So I'm out a bit of money with no answer from them.

Has anyone heard what is going on with them? I assume multiple people who have subscribed to their various offerings have been affected.

Thanks!

Still looking for family history

Does anyone have more information about the Union troops sent right after the battle of Gettysburg to NYC? I’m curious because all I know is that the draft riots had been going on virtually over the same time as the battle, and when the New York City police department were unable to quell the riots, someone sent the troops to the city to lay down martial law against the angry, mostly Irish, immigrant group. How long did it take them to get there? Did they march?

Admittedly I don't really know what could have changed to have a pretty comparable situation to our timeline to have George Thomas in major field command in the east, but let's for the sake of argument assume (makes nice with Grant, Butler dies, some other stuff) this were the case. How would George Thomas being in command of the army of the James at the beginning of the overland campaign change the war, if at all?

Of course in our timeline the army of the James failed miserably under the command of Benjamin Butler, maneuvering themselves into a hopeless bottleneck at Bermuda Hundred and basically taking away any shot of diverting manpower from Northern Virginia. In this situation we have an extremely capable commander in Thomas in charge, so I'm just asking out of curiosity more than anything what difference this would've made, if any