13th Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 13th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army infantry regiment whose battalions are currently tasked as basic training battalions.
Painting depicting U.S. soldiers from 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry charging Confederate lines at Vicksburg, Mississippi on 19 May 1863, losing 43 percent of their men, but managing to fight its colors up to top. General W.T. Sherman called the performance "unequaled in the Army" and authorized the 13th Infantry to inscribe "First at Vicksburg" on its colors.
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched-earth policies that he implemented against the Confederate States. British military theorist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was "the most original genius of the American Civil War" and "the first modern general".
Photograph by Mathew Brady of Sherman in Washington, D.C., in May 1865. The black ribbon of mourning on his left arm is for President Abraham Lincoln.
Sherman's childhood home in Lancaster
Young Sherman in military uniform
Sherman Quarters on 510 Calle Principal, Monterey, California
