These posts are part of a larger series highlighting the contributions and accomplishments of the Invalid Corps/Veteran Reserve Corps during the Civil War. This post only captures some of the activities of individual regiments. Clearly, this is an area ripe for additional research.

22nd Regiment

Organized at Washington, D.C., January 12, 1864, by consolidation of the 74th, 91st, 122nd, 126th, 130th, 134th, 175th, 183rd, 184th and 192nd Companies, 1st Battalion. Mustered out by detachments July 1 to November 19, 1865.

On duty by detachments, chiefly in Indiana, but also in Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Maryland, guarding camps of rendezvous, military prisons, public stores, and escorting rebel prisoners, recruits for the Union armies, &c. Conscripts forwarded, 15,000; recruits, 13,575; deserters, 1,019; with a total loss of 28. Rebel prisoners guarded, 23,003; none reported escaped. Deserters from the draft and persons engaged in resisting it arrested in Indiana and Illinois. One squad killed a rebel recruiting officer, wounded 1 of his men, and captured 16, with a large amount of stolen goods, counterfeit money, and arms.

Reference:

The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies – https://archive.org/details/warrebellionaco17offigoog/page/n578  

These posts are part of a larger series highlighting the contributions and accomplishments of the Invalid Corps/Veteran Reserve Corps during the Civil War. This post only captures some of the activities of individual regiments. Clearly, this is an area ripe for additional research.

21st Regiment

Organized January 12, 1865, by consolidation of the 43rd, 47th, 48th, 49th, 73rd, 84th, 150th, 158th, 176th and 230th Companies, 1st Battalion. Mustered out by detachments July 7 to November 20, 1865.

Has performed duty at Trenton, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington, Albany, and Indianapolis, in detachments of one or more companies, guarding camps of rendezvous, public property, rebel prisoners, and escorting soldiers of various classes to the front. It has had in charge 2,511 stragglers and deserters, 3,684 drafted men and substitutes, 32,122 recruits, and 6,000 rebel prisoners, being a total of 44,317 men, with 341 escapes. At camps guarded by this regiment volunteers to the number of 461 officers and 12,880 men have been mustered out of service.

Reference:

The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies – https://archive.org/details/warrebellionaco17offigoog/page/n578  

These posts are part of a larger series highlighting the contributions and accomplishments of the Invalid Corps/Veteran Reserve Corps during the Civil War. This post only captures some of the activities of individual regiments. Clearly, this is an area ripe for additional research.

20th Regiment

Organized at Baltimore, Md., January 12, 1864, by consolidation of the 60th, 69th, 82nd, 99th, 104th, 127th, 185th, 188th, 199th and 226th Companies, 1st Battalion. Mustered out by detachments June 15 to November 21, 1865.

Commenced the year at Point Lookout, Md., guarding the rebel prisoners there in conjunction with the Eleventh Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps and the Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry. Eighty men as mounted patrols, 40 as artillerymen in a battery, 140 as provost guard, 43 on other detached service as clerks, orderlies, Ac; only 321 present with the regiment. Men on duty every other day; frequently detailed the very morning they were relieved; many detachments to escort exchanged prisoners. The sick list ran as high as fifty-two in consequence of the constant duty and the exposure to winter weather. Average number of prisoners present about 16,000; no escapee reported from guards famished by the regiment. Since the close of the war the Twentieth has been divided among various posts, performing everywhere as much duty as is ever demanded of able-bodied men.

Reference:

The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies – https://archive.org/details/warrebellionaco17offigoog/page/n578

Wow. It was an amazing few days in Hollywood at the IDA conference. I learned so much and met so many amazing people there. AND in addition to getting to talk about disability and media, I also got to screen 5 minutes of the Invalid Corps. 

You can find a transcript of the panel discussion “The Ramp Less Traveled” on the D-Word (https://www.d-word.com/topics/269-Getting-Real-2018?post=364395). You have to be a member, but membership is free. If you have any interest in documentary filmmaking, I highly recommend it. 

The best thing was seeing our Invalid Corps film up on the big screen in an AMPAS theatre (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Yeah, the same guys who do the Oscars.

The panel included:

• Lawrence Carter-Long (moderator), Director of Communications, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
• Jason DaSilva, filmmaker
• Cheryl Green, Media Access Specialist
• Jim LeBrecht, Co-Director, Co-Producer, Crip Camp
• Day Al-Mohamed, Filmmaker and Disability Policy Specialist

Claire Aguilar Director of Programming and Policy introduced the panel. The goal was to accommodate and educate about filmmakers with disabilities. IDA expressed the goal to create a foundation or a database to continue to assemble filmmakers with disabilities to help develop a networking community. Also to make people aware of what accommodation means. The convening is probably the first time any of us (dozens of filmmakers with disabilities) were in a room all together.

Not having much else to say, let me fill this post with lots and lots of photographs. 🙂  All images are courtesy of AMPAS unless otherwise stated.