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Feb 7

UNIT PROFILE – 54TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT

The Emancipation Proclamation’s promulgation in 1863 opened the Union Army’s ranks to Black soldiers for the first time, allowing Black Americans to fight for the Union’s preservation and the end of slavery.

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was among the first all-Black units to be stood up. Led by COL Robert Gould Shaw (scion of a prominent abolitionist family) and promoted by prominent figures like Frederick Douglass, the 54th was flooded with recruits.

Despite Confederate promises to punish captured Black soldiers and their white officers with summary execution for promoting “servile insurrection,” the 54th marched to war in high spirits, leaving Boston on 28 MAY.
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Feb 5

5 FEBRUARY 1945 - DRIVE ON THE ROER DAMS BEGINS #WWII
After winning the Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Army began advancing towards Germany across several of region’s major rivers, most of which had dams that needed to be captured to prevent the enemy from causing major flooding.

LTG William Simpon’s 9th Army planned Operation GRENADE to cross the Roer River and link up with Allied forces advancing from Holland, while LTG Courtney Hodges’ 1st Army used the 78th ID to secure the Schwammenauel Dam, supported by elements of the 82d ABD and the 7th AD.

Jumping off early in the morning of 5 FEB, American soldiers attacked into the Hurtgen Forest for the first time since DEC 1944. Although its progress was hampered by rough terrain and dense forests, the 78th Division made steady, if slow, progress.
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Jan 8

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8 - 26 JANUARY 1967 – OPERATION CEDAR FALLS – VIETNAM WAR
Six brigade-size U.S. Army maneuver units conducted a large-scale "search and destroy" operation in the "Iron Triangle," a Viet Cong (VC) stronghold northwest of Saigon.

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The target area including training, supply and staging areas for a VC main force division and several local force battalions, plus regional military and political command and control, communications and support units and facilities.

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After surrounding the area and establishing blocking positions, U.S. forces swept through while South Vietnamese military and police forces evacuated the civilian population from the war zone.

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Jan 8

8 JANUARY 1815 – BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS – WAR OF 1812
In the War of 1812’s last major battle, MG Andrew Jackson defeated a numerically superior British force and defended New Orleans, one of the most critical commercial ports in the fledgling United States.

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Near the end of Dec. 1814, a large force of British troops under MG Sir Edward Pakenham landed unopposed 15 miles from New Orleans, beginning a campaign to seize the city.Under the leadership of MG Jackson, the Americans established Line JACKSON, 5 miles from New Orleans.

A force composed of 8 batteries of artillery and about 3,500 men, including Army regulars, sailors, marines, militia, Choctaw warriors, and pirates, manned the mile-long line. Another 1,000 U.S. militia under BG David Morgan and a naval gun battery defended the right bank.

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Jan 7

7 JANUARY 1942 - BATTLE OF BATAAN BEGINS – #WWII

After the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in Dec. 1941 and the fall of Manila on Jan. 2, 1942, the defending U.S. and Filipino troops withdrew to Bataan.

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On Bataan, the combined forces under the command of GEN Douglas MacArthur fought a fierce delaying action beginning on 7 Jan. The Japanese attack was halted initially, but it was reinforced over the following three months, slowly rolling back U.S./Philippine defenses.

During the brutal fighting for control of the peninsula, American and Filipino soldiers endured intense privation, holding out under increasingly impossible odds until the inexorable weight of the enemy forced their surrender on 9 Apr. 1942.
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Nov 24, 2022

24-25 November 1863 - BATTLES OF CHATTANOOGA #CivilWar
After defeating Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans at Chickamauga in Sept., Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee took up positions south and east of Chattanooga, TN. on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.

The CSA force lay siege to Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland in the city, cutting it off its rail access. The War Dept. dispatched about 20,000 men under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker from the Army of the Potomac by rail in late Sept. to relieve the beleaguered Union army.

In late Oct., Hooker attacked CSA positions southwest of Chattanooga to restore rail access. Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant arrived and took overall command; Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman led Grant's Army of the Tennessee, while Maj. Gen. George Thomas replaced Rosecrans.

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