http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/11/09/marines-in-the-civil-war/ Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:18:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/11/09/marines-in-the-civil-war/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Phil Roycraft Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:12:21 +0000 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/blog/?p=698#comment-371 I am researching the involvement of the 8th Illinois in the re-printing of the famous “wallpaper edition” of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen. Therefore, I am interrested in the diary of G.D. Molineaux during this period. However, your link is broken. Is there any way you can send me the transcription?

]]> http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/11/09/marines-in-the-civil-war/comment-page-1/#comment-370 hardings Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:08:22 +0000 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/blog/?p=698#comment-370 Messler’s Mississippi Marine Brigade was actually a special command in the Regular Army that was given direction by the Union Navy. Although as an actual unit they were not apart of the USMC, their actions of defending Union plantations and towns along the Mississippi River bared a much higher resemblance to Marine operations than the actions of the USMC itself, which was racked with leadership problems and spent most of the Civil War performing guard duties and manning blockades.

]]> http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/11/09/marines-in-the-civil-war/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Naim Peress Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:26:40 +0000 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/blog/?p=698#comment-369 This sounds very interesting. Were these Marines as in the US Marine Corps or naval marines?

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