CSWT-08 - Wheat's Tigers D-Day With summer approaching

With summer approaching

Sound the call with FFL074 – Bugler

This finely crafted figure portrays a Crusader priest from Lorraine

Well-positioned combat figures help create displays that feel dynamic and believable while accurately reflecting battlefield tactics

enabling collectors to recreate the command structures that shaped the course of the Second World War alongside the soldiers who carried out their orders

CSWT-08 - Wheat's Tigers D-Day With summer approachingThe battalion called the Louisiana Tigers was the creation of Roberdeau Chatham Wheat, and was to become one of the most notorious military corps ever to be raised during this conflict. In New Orleans Wheat looked for his recruits among the Irish roustabouts and riffraff of the city. His company was soon joined by four others and on June 9 th 1861, they were mustered into the Confederate service as the 1 st Louisiana Special Battalion. The battalion