Eastern Iron Brigade - Other Iron Brigades

Other Iron Brigades

There were and are other brigades known to some extent by the same nickname:

• Another brigade in the Army of the Potomac from three western states was later named the Iron Brigade, or the "Iron Brigade of the West". This brigade, composed primarily of units from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, was also known as the Black Hat Brigade.

• A Confederate cavalry brigade was known as Shelby's Iron Brigade. It was in the division commanded by Brig. Gen. Joseph O. (Jo) Shelby in the Army of Missouri and fought in Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition in 1864.

• Recent scholarship identifies two other brigades referred to by their members or others as "The Iron Brigade":
  • 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps (17th Maine, 3rd Michigan, 5th Michigan, 1st, 37th, and 101st New York)
  • Reno's Brigade from the North Carolina expedition (21st and 35th Massachusetts, 51st Pennsylvania, and 51st New York)

• The current Second Brigade of the U.S. Army's First Armored Division has carried the "Iron Brigade" moniker since 1985.

• The Third Brigade of the Fourth Infantry Division is also known as the Iron Brigade.