Synopsis. John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790, in Charles City County, Virginia. Like his father, Tyler served as governor of Virginia. Representing the Whig Party, he was the first vice president to become president due the death of his predecessor (President William Henry Harrison).
In the British Army, a rifle platoon from an infantry company consists of three sections of eight men, plus a signaller (radio operator), a platoon sergeant (a Sergeant), the platoon commander (either a second lieutenant or lieutenant) and a mortar man operating a light mortar (full strength of 27 men and one officer).
How many men were in the infantry of the 54th regiment? All Civil War regiments had 1,000 men at full strength. There were ten companies in a regiment, each with one hundred men. Most had this many when they started out, but rareâ¦ly had anything like this many after a few months service. Disease and battle losses were hard to make up.