I finally completed the last brigade in Brigadier General Absalom Baird's 1st Division of Major General George Thomas' XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland. This is Brigadier General John King's 3rd Brigade, "The Regulars." It was the only regular US Army brigade in the Army of the Cumberland, composed of the 1st Battalion, 15th US Infantry, 1st Battalion, 16th US Infantry, 1st and 2nd Battalions, 18th US Infantry, and 1st Battalion, 19th US Infantry. Although they were part of the regular establishment, not volunteer regiments, they were no better than the volunteers who made up the vast majority of Baird's 1st Division.
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| King's Regular Brigade in attack column |
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| A "bird's eye" view of the brigade |
They are organized for the "On to Richmond" rules where the basic infantry maneuver unit is the brigade. Each stand is approximately 300 real men.
They join the other two brigades of Baird's division, completing three of the four divisions in Thomas famed XIV Corps. I still have to paint Brigadier General John Brannan's 3rd Division of three brigades to complete the corps.
But now I've turned to catching up my Confederate force by beginning on Major General Patrick Cleburne's Division of Lieutenant General William J. Hardee's Corps.
My American Civil War forces are from the 1863 Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee who contested central Tennessee in the Tullahoma Campaign leading to the decisive battle of Chickamauga.
