Great overview. I just wonder, if it was really necessary to renumber all the NG regiments in 1917. I mean, we got through the Civil War without too much confusion due to overlapping state numerical regimental designations right?
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Only under the Empire. The Republic would reassign numbers, raising & disbanding legions in a regular basis. Thus Julius Caesar’s favored Legio X had little association with the Legiones X of the Empire.
Caesar's Legio X is the Imperial Leg. X Gemina, sometimes called Leg. X Equestris after the famous bit with the horses in Gaul. It has a bull as its emblem to explicitly advertise Caesarian origin (he was a Taurus).
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Leg X. Gemina was formed in 59, in Gaul 58-49, Spain in 49, was at Pharsalus and Thapsus, was disbanded in 46-5 (probably settled at Narbo), but re-raised to fight at Munda (45), reformed (possibly by Lepidus), served at Philippi and Actium under Antony; continued into the empire
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Served in Spain under Augustus. Although it is a touch out of date on some legionary histories (e.g. Leg. V Alaudae), you may find Keppie, The Making of the Roman Army (1984) helpful in tracing civil war and imperial legions.
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