With the aid of his advocate in Washington, DC, Elihu B. Washburne, Grant was promoted to Colonel by Governor Richard Yates on June 14, 1861, and put in charge of the unruly Twenty-first Illinois volunteer regiment.

Although he left Hiram in 1861 to take up the Civil War command of Company A of the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment recruited from Hiram, Garfield's name appeared in the Institute's catalogs until 1863.

Sherman was first commissioned as colonel of the 13th U. S. Infantry regiment, effective May 14, 1861.

This was a new regiment yet to be raised, and Sherman's first command was actually of a brigade of three-month volunteers, at the head of which he became one of the few Union officers to distinguish himself at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, where he was grazed by bullets in the knee and shoulder.

In October 1861 he was given command of a regiment, " Forrest's Cavalry Corps ".

Stand Watie, the leader of the Ridge Party, raised a regiment for Confederate service in 1861.

In September 1861, they joined the Vermont 6th Vermont Infantry, and helped fill out Companies B, D and E. The regiment ultimately became part of the First Vermont Brigade.

He raised a regiment, the 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and was appointed its colonel on May 2, 1861.

He was appointed Colonel of the 13th Maine Infantry on November 23, 1861, and his regiment participated in the capture of New Orleans under the command of Union Army Major General Benjamin Butler.

On September 13, 1861, at New Haven, Connecticut, Col. Terry organized an elite and special regiment, 7th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, a three-year regiment, naming Joseph Roswell Hawley, who assisted in raising the regiment, as lieutenant colonel.

In April 1861, Hartranft raised a Montgomery County regiment of ninety-day volunteers in Norristown, serving as colonel of the 4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

On September 9, 1861, Fowle was appointed lieutenant colonel of the regiment.

Promoted to major on October 24, 1861, he joined the 6th Illinois Cavalry and was promoted to colonel of that regiment on April 13, 1862.

When the Civil War broke out, Schofield became a major in a Missouri volunteer regiment and served as chief of staff to Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon until Lyon's death during the Battle of Wilson's Creek ( Missouri ) in August 1861.

The first regiment to use the Island was the Ninth New York Infantry, also known as Hawkins ' Zouaves, which arrived there on May 15, 1861.

By May 29, 1861, Butler's force which included the 1st Vermont Infantry, Colonel John A. Bendix's 7th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( a regiment of German speakers ), the 4th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Scott's Life Guards, and a detachment of U. S. Regulars to man artillery, completed the mission.

It was published in 1993, soon after he relinquished command of 13th / 18th Royal Hussars ( which includes ( in merged form ) two of the light dragoon regiments: the 13th was originally raised as a heavy dragoon regiment in 1715 but later converted to light dragoons ; the 18th was raised as a light dragoon regiment in 1759 ; both retitled as hussars in 1861, merged in 1922 and then merged with the 15th / 19th The King's Royal Hussars to form the present Light Dragoons in 1992 ).

At the start of the Civil War, Oglesby was appointed colonel of the 8th Illinois Infantry regiment on April 25, 1861, and was soon given command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, Department of the Missouri, serving under the command of Ulysses S. Grant.

After the start of the Civil War, Gamble was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Illinois Cavalry regiment on 18 September 1861.

The 1st Minnesota was the first state volunteer regiment formally tendered to the Federal government under Abraham Lincoln's call for 75, 000 troops in 1861, being offered on April 14 for three months service, Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey happening to be in Washington at the time.

When war was proclaimed in 1861, Cobb joined the Confederate Army as captain of Co. C., Tenth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Forney's brigade, and went to Virginia with that regiment.

He signed up as a private in the First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry in 1861 and his regiment marched off to war first at Cheat Mountain, next in the Shenandoah Valley, then at Shiloh and Perryville.

After the end of the French empire, Asti returned to Piedmont in 1814 ; the city followed Piedmontese history until the unification of Italy in 1861.

He returned to Frankfurt as personal physician to the banished Archduke Stephen of Austria at Schaumburg Castle from 1861 to 1863.

Land was returned that would have been forfeited under the Confiscation Acts passed by Congress in 1861 and 1862.

In 1861 Spain returned to the country, having struck a bargain with Dominican leader Pedro Santana whereby the latter was granted several honorific titles and privileges, in exchange for annexing the young nation back to Spanish rule.

The mission was secularized in 1834 and returned to the Catholic Church in 1861 ; it became a working church in 1920.

Article 1, Section 7 of the Confederate States Constitution, adopted March 11, 1861, allowed the president of the Confederacy the ability to " approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill ," with such disapprovals returned to the houses of congress for reconsideration and potentially for override.

In the spring of 1861, he returned to a nation in the throes of the Civil War.

Having surveyed the area in 1854 for a railroad company, John Pope returned in 1855 to start a camp in northwestern Loving County and establish artesian wells in the area, but the venture was unsuccessful and was abandoned in 1861.

" He delivered a farewell address in the Senate ( January 7, 1861 ) in which he said: “ We want no negro equality, no negro citizenship ; we want no negro race to degrade our own ; and as one man would meet you upon the border with the sword in one hand and the torch in the other .” He returned to Georgia, and with Governor Joseph E. Brown led the fight for secession against Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson ( 1812 – 1880 ).

Keller returned again to Zurich and became the First Official Secretary of the Canton of Zurich ( Erster Zürcher Staatsschreiber ) in 1861.

But he was highly esteemed in the West Riding, and in 1861 was returned unopposed for Bradford.

Nelson returned to Albion in the spring of 1861, when the American Civil War had started.

Lowell returned to Elmwood by January 1861 but maintained an amicable relationship with the new owners of the journal, continuing to submit his poetry and prose for the rest of his life.

George Washington was returned to the normal-letter-rate stamp: he had played that role in the issues of 1851 and 1861 and would continue to do so in every subsequent definitive set until the Presidential Series of 1938.

Mitre defeated Urquiza at the battle of Pavón in 1861, and Buenos Aires returned to the Confederation, which would be the modern Republic of Argentina.

In 1857 at the age of 18, Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business, but he abandoned it after four years and returned to Paris in 1861.

At the end of May 1861, Wills returned to the Dig Tree to put his diary, notebook and journals in the cache for safekeeping.

He returned to his native state in 1857 and was appointed adjutant general by Governor Beriah Magoffin in 1861.

After the arsenal seizure, McRea returned to White County and organized a volunteer cavalry troop, the Border Rangers, in Searcy Arkansas in April 1861 where he was elected and served as Captain.

On April 14, 1865, four years to the day after lowering the Fort Sumter Flag in surrender, Robert Anderson ( by then a major general, although ill and in retired status ) returned to the ruined fort to raise the flag he had lowered in 1861.

It was in 1861, shortly after Mitre became Argentine president, that Sarmiento left Buenos Aires and returned to San Juan, where he was elected governor, a post he took up in 1862.

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Kearny returned to the United States and was appointed a brigadier general, commanding the First New Jersey Brigade, which he trained efficiently.

Virgil's older brother James had previously enlisted, but returned home in late 1861 after he was badly wounded during a battle near Fredericktown, Missouri.

The troops returned in 1861, fearing that the American Civil War might spread to Canada.

He returned to the practice of law and was a delegate to an 1861 peace convention to try to prevent the American Civil War.