Lowe would achieve the rank of first sergeant in just over ... Grant in Virginia. With the Civil War behind, the NCO again looked for opportunities to further training and education across the ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of ... before the Civil War, watched the ...

Of the 260 women soldiers who served during the Civil War ... woman went to war with her dad. Because they were passing as men, historians have no clear idea how many women enlisted in the Union ...

During the Civil War (1861-1865), NCOs prided themselves ... sergeants $17 and corporals $14. Below the NCO ranks, privates, blacksmiths and buglers earned $13. As the Army continued to modernize ...

When a woman was discovered in the ranks, it was typically after ... the majority of female soldiers enlisted in the armies of the American Civil War. Sarah Emma Edmonds, alias Pvt.