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Comments on: Napoleon Bonaparte Knight https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339 Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: norman childs https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-63565 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 23:13:35 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-63565 I would love to get any photos of Napoleon Bonaparte Knight that anyone has as he was my great grandfather and anyone who is a relative who wants to discover the UK part of his history.
marlowbridge@hotmail.com (Australia)

]]> By: Norman Childs https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-59172 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:25:07 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-59172 Col N B Knight was my grandmothers(Sylvia Knight) father and her sister was Portia Kinght was my mothers Aunt,love to get any photos that you might have : marlowbridge@hotmail.com (Australia) many thanks great read even though he wasnt that cool !

]]> By: Civil War Daily Gazette » Move in the Direction of Gettysburg; Stuart Delayed by a Drunken Delawarean https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-56055 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 08:01:03 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-56055 […] than 90 men. They were commanded, however, by one of the greatest names in Civil War history: Major Napoleon Bonaparte Knight. Unfortunately, on this date he was blind drunk. The duty then fell to the less-colorfully-named […]

]]> By: The Battle of Westminster… Corbit’s Charge « ritaLOVEStoWRITE https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-45801 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:19:35 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-45801 […] companies and those seven were reassembled into four active companies. Under the leadership of Major Napoleon Bonaparte Knight, Companies C and D arrived in Westminster to bolster a small garrison from 150th New York to […]

]]> By: Rick Gibison https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-45519 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:38:23 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-45519 If you would like to see the Roster of the 1st Delaware Archives, trying visiting the website for the Delaware State Archives. For the 150th Anniversary of the War, they put all their records on line. In the Vandegrift Diary , the entire Roster List for Company C is included. Along with accounts of Corbit’s Charge, Petersburg and Cold Harbor. Along with Col. Knights repeated drunkeness and mistreatment of his his men, with whom he was stated as being gretly disliked. Corbit should have been in charge!

]]> By: Rick Gibison https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-44984 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:37 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-44984 I recently read and copied Sgt. Harrison Vandegrift’s diary from 1863-1864 ay Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a joint diary kept by his brother William (who was shot and killed at the charge at Westminster). Quite a bit is written about Col. Knight – I’ll just leave it at that. From what I read, the men of the Company thought highly of Capt. Charles Corbit. Iam currently making a list of the Delaware men involved at Corbit’s Charge in Westminster, June 29, 1863. The Delaware State Archives have put all their Civil War records on-line, free for anyone to us. I highly recommend it. Photos, Muster Rolls, etc…

]]> By: Karene Smith https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-38760 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:15:07 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-38760 Where can I find the names of the soldiers of the Delaware First Cavalry that fought in Corbit’s Charge? I am really new to this. Thank you for the article and bio on Napolean Bonaparte Knight, it explained a lot.
Thank You,
Karene Smith

]]> By: Tom Reed https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-36066 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:04:08 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-36066 I portray Maj. Knight as a first-person re-enactor. I assume that people reading this blog know that Knight’s daughter, Portia, a talented actress, sued the Duke of Manchester for breach of promise in 1901 and her father came to England to assist in the trial. She lost. Does anyone have a photo of Maj. Knight that can be copied?

]]> By: Larry Gilmore https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-34367 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:24:19 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-34367 I was looking for something else and stumbled on your discussion of the 1st Oregon Cavalry. As a native Oregonian, as well as professional historian, I feel impelled to point out that it was not the only Civil War volunteer unit from the Pacific Northwest. There was also the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry and the 1st Washington Territory Volunteer Infantry. Most of these troops spent their time doing boring garrison duty, but the cavalry, in particular, saw much active campaigning against the Northern Paiutes in eastern Oregon and Idaho. Besides the Indian threat, there was the possibility of domestic insurgency, as a large part of the population throughout the Far West came from southern states. Another question was protecting the mouth of the Columbia River against any Confederate naval raid. The C.S.S. Shenandoah was roving the North Pacific late in the war, and the Columbia was the only outlet for gold then pouring from mines in eastern Oregon and Washington and Idaho. I assume the Federal Government took at least a mild interest in hanging on to this treasure.
California did its share too. It raised 8 infantry regiments, 2 of cavalry, and a couple smaller units, with contingents serving all over the Far West, mostly against Indians, but also facing Confederate troops in New Mexico and Arizona. One California unit saw battle in the East. The 1st Infantry Regiment, California Volunteers fought at Balls Bluff in 1861, where its colonel, Edward Baker (a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln) was killed. Probably for logistical reasons, this unit later became the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Last, but not least, for a cavalry website: California volunteers were assigned to Massachusetts cavalry regiments. Company A, 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry was made up of Californians, whose fighting elicited a compliment from none other than Mosby (“the Gray Ghost”).
There’s more about these units on the Internet, if you care to look.

]]> By: Mia https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339&cpage=1#comment-34148 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:34 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=339#comment-34148 Napoleon Knight is my great grandfather’s brother. HIs brother / my great grandfather was Colonial John Henry Knight for Dover, Del.; Bayfield, Ashland and Madison, Wisconsin.

My mother (age 92) has a wonderful photo of Napoleon in one of her mother’s photo album (circa 1880-1910).

Where did you get the information on “Uncle Napoleon?” I would like to read on. He came from a LARGE family and I have found several of them in the graveyard in Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Thank you. Mia Grosjean

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