The Partisan Ranger Act was passed on April 21, 1862, by the Confederate Congress. It was intended as a stimulus for recruitment of irregulars for service...
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government, which had granted Quantrill a field commission under the Partisan Ranger Act, was outraged and withdrew support for such irregular forces. By...
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faction of the resistance in German-occupied Belgium in World War II. Partisan Ranger Act Peace Companies Pomeranian Griffin Polish resistance movement in...
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McNeill's Rangers was an independent Confederate military force commissioned under the Partisan Ranger Act (1862) by the Confederate Congress during the...
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56th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (redirect from 56th_Alabama_Partisan_Rangers)
Cavalry was a Confederate Partisan Ranger cavalry regiment from Alabama. Initially organized as 2 separate Partisan Ranger battalions, the 56th Regiment...
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2nd Mississippi Infantry. The Confederate Congress had passed the Partisan Ranger Act in April, 1862 to authorize the formation of irregular guerilla units...
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by a military force for operations behind enemy lines. The 1862 Partisan Ranger Act, passed by the Confederate Congress, authorized the formation of...
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43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion (redirect from Mosby's Rangers)
granted him permission to raise a company in January 1863 under the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862 in which the Confederate Congress authorized the formation...
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partisans and guerrillas) were generally mounted forces. A concept particularly employed by the Confederates, due in part to the Partisan Ranger Act,...
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Devil. American Civil War portal William Quantrill George M. Todd Partisan Ranger Act Anderson's middle name is unknown. Wood speculates that it was "Thomas"...
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