[Dedicated in memory of PVT
Matthias Seipp, Co. H, 44th Wisconsin Infantry
and PVT
Heinrich Koppenn, Co F, 12th Illinois Infantry]
The failure of the Continental Fathers
to abolish Slavery in the new
Nation
resulted in a bloody holocaust that took more than 600,000 American
lives,
left a large portion of battle survivors without an arm or leg and many
more
with, what we now call, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (resulting in
some
suicides which were never added to the number of war dead).
"It is Essential to Respect the Rights of Every Human Life!"
By the 1860's the Army had had nearly ninety years to become large
and
diversified. Enlisted rank insignia, too, had become large and
diversified.
Chevrons covered the entire outer sleeve, in dashing colors. The
several
branches of the Army had their respective jobs and used their troops in
varying
manners. The insignia show this.
