Irish Brigade Camp No. 4

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Department of the Chesapeake

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Need a Speaker?


Our Camp Members can speak to several topics including:

     •  United States Colored Troops

     •  54th Massachusetts (as in the movie Glory)

     •  Civil War 101

     •  Reconciliation — Healing the Wounds of War

     •  Independent Rangers of Loudoun County, Virginia

     •  Montgomery County, Maryland during the Civil War

     •  Battle of Fort Stevens, Washington, D.C., July 1864

     •  General Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Campaign Plan

     •  General Ulysses S. Grant Concluding the War & the Challenges of Peace

     •  General Phillip Sheridan

     •  Civil War Cavalry

     •  Civil War Weaponry

     •  Civil War Artillery

     •  Welsh in the Civil War

     •  Battle of Fredericksburg

     •  Battle of Chancellorsville

     •  Overland Campaign 

     •  50th Pennsylvania  – 1861- 1862 – Muster in, initial training, and first operations in vicinity of Port Royal, SC.  

     •  50th Pennsylvania – 1862 of local interest is Aquia Landing to 2nd Manassas, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam and actions around Fredericksburg.

     •  50th Pennsylvania – 1863 – travel from Baltimore to Kentucky, then to Vicksburg and Jackson with return to Kentucky for movement to battles in Eastern TN – Campbell’s Station, Knoxville, and pursuit of Longstreet into VA.  

     •  50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry – 1864 of local interest is Wilderness, Po River, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna River, Cold Harbor, crossing the James, 1st Battle of Petersburg, Battle of the Crater, Battle of Globe Tavern.

     •  210th PA Volunteer Infantry – Sep 1864 – Muster Out.


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