The Pennsylvania Bucktails
in the Civil War

-Lieutenant Colonel Thomas L. Kane,
1st Pennsylvania Rifles
Founder of the Bucktails

Choose the Regiment

Orgin of the Bucktails:

Kane's Rifle Regiment - 1861

Baptisim of Fire - Their first test

Season of 1862

Major Stone's New Assignment (New Bucktail Brigade)

Bucktail Descendants Association:

1st Pa Rifles, (13th Res., 42nd Pa Vols) 

143rd Pennsylvania Volunteers

149th Pennsylvania Volunteers

150th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Field Reports & Eyewitness Accounts:

Letters/Accounts from the Men

Accounts from the Other Side

Official Reports

Newspaper Clippings

Recent Projects:

Further Investigation of the "Color Episode of the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers."

Bucktail Decsendants Association taking new steps

Bucktail Educational Seminar

Recommended Reading:

"History of the Bucktails" by Thomson & Rauch

"The Bucktailed Wildcats" by Edwin A. Glover

"The 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Unit in the Civil War" by Richard E. Matthews

More...

Links

1st Pa Rifles Reenactment Group, Company B

Gettysburg Discussion Group

Military History Online

150th Pa Vols Reenactment Group, Company F

Grand Army of the Republic 5th Corps(Sid Meier's Gettysburg Group)


Website Maintained by August J. Marchetti III
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
http://www.pennsylvaniabucktails.com

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