Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General Butler” in chapter 99 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments.:

...;–––––––––1,365 The 31st Mass. Infantry, under the name of the Western Bay State Regiment, was raised in the autumn and winter of 1861-62 by General Butler , was in camp at Pittsfield, Mass., and moved in February to Camp Chase, Lowell. It left the State February 21 to join the Department of the Gulf, under command of Col. Oliver P. Gooding, a graduate...
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