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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: October 21, 2021
Caption: The Iron Brigade
Additional Description: In autumn 1861, the U.S. Army incorporated the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and 19th Indiana Infantry Regiments into a brigade (adding the 24th Michigan a year later). Gen. Joseph Hooker referred to it as his “iron brigade” after heavy losses at the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, and the name stuck. The distinctively black-hatted unit deployed early at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, to stop the Confederate advance. The cost was ghastly (several regiments suffered between 65 and 80 percent casualties), effectively destroying the brigade. Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: October 23, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p617679
File Size: 1.141 Megabytes

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