page_title: Lincoln Battalion
hierarchical_section_title: Lincoln Battalion
caption_attribution_description: English: Tom Mooney Company from the Lincoln Battalion. Jarama, c. 1937
context_page_description: The Lincoln Battalion was the 17th battalion of the XV International Brigade, a mixed brigade of the International Brigades also known as Abraham Lincoln Brigade. It was organized by the Communist International with great care to conceal or minimize the communist character of the enterprise. Attractive names were deliberately chosen for the International Brigades, such as "Garibaldi" in Italy or "Abraham Lincoln" in the United States. The Lincoln Brigade was formed by a group of volunteers from the United States who served in the Spanish Civil War as soldiers, technicians, medical personnel and aviators fighting for Spanish Republican forces against the forces of General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist faction. The Lincoln Brigade integrated white and black volunteers on an equal basis.
  Of the approximately 3,015 volunteers from the US, 681 were killed in action or died of wounds or sickness.
context_section_description: The Lincoln Battalion was the 17th (later the 58th) battalion of the XV International Brigade, a mixed brigade of the International Brigades also known as Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Spanish: Brigada Abraham Lincoln). It was organized by the Communist International with great care to conceal or minimize the communist character of the enterprise. Attractive names were deliberately chosen for the International Brigades, such as "Garibaldi" in Italy or "Abraham Lincoln" in the United States. The Lincoln Brigade was formed by a group of volunteers from the United States who served in the Spanish Civil War as soldiers, technicians, medical personnel and aviators fighting for Spanish Republican forces against the forces of General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist faction. The Lincoln Brigade integrated white and black volunteers on an equal basis.
  Of the approximately 3,015 volunteers from the US, 681 were killed in action or died of wounds or sickness.
caption: The Lincoln Battalion Machinegun Company
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