Impression Archive

This archive contains past event impression guidelines and other related articles. Our members researched this information to determine what a unit was wearing, carrying, and eating during a specific campaign to aid in our portrayal of them. The evidence provided in these articles acts only as a guide, as the thoughts and theories from other researchers could draw different conclusions, especially if new evidence has surfaced since writing.

Federal Impressions

1861

• 2nd Vermont Infantry at Fort Marcy in the Defenses of Washington, September 1861

1862

• “A Splendid Appearance:” Extracts from the 146th New York Infantry, 1862-64

• 82nd Ohio Infantry at McDowell, May 1862

• The Hell-Spot: 1st Virginia Infantry (US) at Port Republic, June 1862

• Contraband Camp at Harper’s Ferry: Contrabands, 10th Maine Infantry, and Citizens, September 1862

• The Park: 1st New York Light Artillery after Antietam, October 1863

1863

• The Patrol: 3rd New York Cavalry and 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery at New Bern, March 1863

• 1st Minnesota Infantry at Gettysburg, July 1863

• Silent Machines: 12th US Regulars after Gettysburg, July 1863

1864

• 10th New York Battalion at Petersburg, June 1864

• 5th New York Heavy Artillery at Cedar Creek, October 1864

1865

• 87th Pennsylvania at Sailor’s Creek, April 1865

Confederate Impressions

1861

• 36th Virginia Infantry in Summer/Fall 1861

• “The Bloody Thirty First:" Reflections on the 31st Virginia Infantry at Allegheny Mountain, December 1861

1862

• 6th Mississippi at Shiloh, April 1862

• 4th Texas Infantry during the Peninsula Campaign, May-June 1862

• Turning the Guns: 21st Georgia Infantry and Bedford Light Artillery in Orange County, Virginia, Summer 1862

• 21st Georgia Infantry at Brawner’s Farm, Second Manassas, August 1862

• 4th Texas Infantry during the Maryland Campaign, September 1862

• I Hear the Distant Thunder: 4th Texas Infantry and Bedford Light Artillery at Antietam, September 1862

1863

• 16th Mississippi Infantry during the Chancellorsville Campaign, May 1863

• Fight Your Guns to the Death: 37th North Carolina Infantry at Chancellorsville, May 1863

• Prelude to Invasion: 8th Virginia Infantry in Culpeper County, Va., June 1863

• 15th Alabama at Little Round Top, Gettysburg, July 1863

• English Cloth on Cooke’s Foot Cavalry: English Uniforms and the 27th North Carolina Troops, October 1863

• 5th Virginia Cavalry during the Bristoe Campaign, October 1863

1864

• "Black and Muddy as Hogs:" 4th North Carolina Infantry during the Overland Campaign, May 1864

• Warlike Along the Rapidan: 13th Virginia Infantry during the Overland Campaign, May 1864

1865

• 30th Battalion Virginia Sharpshooters in Winter Quarters, February 1865