Always Ready by Keith Rocco. SIG137 Lieutenant Colonel Menahem Shmul

Lieutenant Colonel Menahem Shmul

P-38 Lightning by Nicolas Trudgian

turned to attacking under the cloak of darkness

The Lightning was

Always Ready by Keith Rocco. SIG137 Lieutenant Colonel Menahem ShmulKR0004. Always Ready by Keith Rocco. It was the morning of September 17, 1862 a day destined to become the bloodiest 24 hours in American history and the 9th New York quietly steadied themselves for the trial to come. The Ninth New York was one of the Federal Army's most colorfully uniformed commands, clad in exotic regalia inspired by the famed French colonial troops called Zouaves. Like many Yankee Zouave units, at the outbreak of war in April, 1861