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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Twelfth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
Actual total of members of regiment,— Officers,1756––––––––––––73 Enlisted men, Including non-commissioned staff.10–21155132161137128153142140154150141,497 Totals,––––––––––––––1,570 Recruiting for the 12th Mass. Infantry began April 22, 1861, through the efforts of Fletcher Webster of Marshfield, Mass., who afterward became its colonel, and through whom it gained the title of The Webster Regiment. May 1 the companies raised were stationed at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, and on June 26, 1861, the greater part of the regiment was mustered into the United States' service, the organization being completed July 11; on July 23 it left the State and, assigned to Abercrombie's Brigade of General Banks' forces, went by the way of Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, and was engaged during the remainder of the year in guarding the upper Potomac; moving in the autumn to Hyattstown and Seneca Mills and making its winter quarters at Frederick, Md