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The Texas Brigade (also known as Hood's Brigade) was an infantry formation of the Confederate Army that distinguished itself in the American Civil War. Along with the Stonewall Brigade , they were considered the Army of Northern Virginia's shock troops .
The Paper Brigade was the name given to a group of residents of the Vilna Ghetto who hid a large cache of Jewish cultural items from YIVO (the Yiddish Scientific Institute), saving them from destruction or theft by Nazi Germany.
Mar 29, 2018 · Hood's Texas Brigade was organized on October 22, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia. It was initially commanded by Brig. Gen. Louis T. Wigfall and composed of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Texas Infantry regiments, the only Texas troops to fight in the Eastern Theater.
Mar 1, 2019 · John Bell Hood's brigade of Texans in the rebel Army of Northern Virginia has often received praise as the Confederacy's finest combat unit. These soldiers made themselves famous on the battlefields of Gaines Mill, Antietam, Gettysburg, and at many other locations.
- John R. Lundberg
- 2019
Sep 19, 2017 · The Texas Brigade suffered tremendous casualties as a divided force and by fighting “too fast” at the Battle of Antietam. Military historian and Civil War Times advisory board member Susannah J. Ural’s new book, […]
Most of the brigade came from middle-class households of east Texas: blacksmiths, farmers, a few lawyers, urban professionals and skilled laborers. As Ural points out, this disparate group of men shared one common motivation to go to war in 1861.
Jan 1, 1996 · The division returned to Camp Hood, Texas, in 1946 to retrain and rebuild. Still based at Fort Hood, the Second Armored Division furnished thousands of trained replacements to units serving in the Korean War.
