BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Quantico -- Natl Museum of the Marine Corps -- Gallery: Defending the New Republic (1775-1865) -- Civil War

VA -- Quantico -- Natl Museum of the Marine Corps -- Gallery: Defending the New Republic (1775-1865) -- Civil War:

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1. MCMCW_100612_001.JPG: With Lincoln at Gettysburg: "In [Lincoln's] simple wisdom and eloquence, something had been said which would live forever." -- First Lieutenant Henry Clay Cochrane, USMC No Marines fought in the cataclysmic July 1863 battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but Lieutenant Henry Clay Cochrane, USMC, accompanied Abraham Lincoln to the site in November, as a member of the official party when the President delivered his renowned Gettysburg Address. Cochrane rode with Lincoln in the presidential railcar from Washington DC to Gettysburg and sat near the podium as Lincoln delivered his remarks. The Marine Band, under Francis M. Scala, played aboard the President's train, in the procession that marched through town on 19 November, and during the ceremony at the cemetery.
2. MCMCW_100612_014.JPG: 1775-1865: The Civil War
3. MCMCW_100612_030.JPG: John Brown's Body: "Send all the available Marines at Head Quarters... to Harper's Ferry... which is endangered by a riotous outbreak." -- Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey to Colonel Commandant John Harris, 17 October 1859 John Brown, an abolitionist, hoped to trigger a slave uprising when he led 18 armed raiders into the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, on 16 October 1859 and seized local hostages. Responding to urgent orders, Colonel Harris dispatched 86 Marines by train from Washington under Lieutenant Israel Greene, USMC. Greene and Army Lieutenant JEB Stuart led a storming party into a fortified building, freeing 13 civilian hostages and killing or capturing the insurrectionists. John Brown, struck down by Greene's sword, was later executed, but his uprising inspired Northern antislavery support, widening the gulf between Yankees and Southerners. Marines at Harpers Ferry: In October 1859, the abolitionist John Brown sought to incite a slave uprising by seizing weapons and hostages from the Harpers Ferry arsenal. The rapid deployment of Lieutenant Israel Greene and his Marines from the Washington Barracks provided an immediate storming party. Charging the building under fire with a battering ram, the Marines cut down the defenders and rescued the hostages unharmed. Few Marine operations in the ensuring Civil War were as professionally executed.
4. MCMCW_100612_053.JPG: First Marine Medal of Honor: "I cannot understand how any of you escaped alive." -- President Abraham Lincoln, inspecting the battle-damaged Galena A powerful Union naval force led by ironclads Monitor and Galena steamed up the James River toward Richmond, Virginia, on 11 May 1862, until halted by obstructions beneath Drewry's Bluff. Plunging fire from enemy guns atop the bluff battered Galena mercilessly. Confederate soldiers and Marines poured musketry into her ports. "Blood flowed on her decks like water," reported Corporal John F. Mackie, USMC, who rallied the stunned survivors and kept the ship's guns in action. The Confederate defense, which saved their capital, marked the war's most notable fight between opposing Marines. Corporal Mackie, a 26-year-old silversmith from New York City, received the Medal of Honor from President Abraham Lincoln, becoming the first US Marine to be awarded the nation's highest award for valor.
5. MCMCW_100612_121.JPG: Civil War Marines Corps Colors: Maj. John Reynolds' Marine Battalion reportedly carried this flag at the First Battle of Manassas, 21 July 1861. The battalion, comprised primarily of raw recruits with three weeks' service, suffered the same fate as the rest of the Federal army in their defeat by the Confederate Army.
6. MCMCW_100612_130.JPG: 1866 US Navy Boarding Rattle: From the 1830s through the 1890s, US Navy ships carried wooden rattles to sound the alarm to repel enemy boarders or to call boarding parties. These boarding parties, drawn from the ships' gun crews, were often led by Marine officers to action. The rattled produced a distinctive sound that sailors could hear during battle.
7. MCMCW_100612_154.JPG: Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver: This revolver, serial number 89654, was purchased by the US Navy. It bears the inspection mark of Lt. George W. Rodgers, Ordnance Inspector at the New York Navy Yard. Rodgers was later killed in battle during the storming of Fort Sumter in 1863.
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