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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
e their position in front of Washington, N. C., thereby releasing the Forty-fourth Massachusetts from its uncomfortable position. On the 11th of June, the regiment was ordered to Boston, and, on the 26th, was mustered out of service by Captain I. K. Lawrence. During the campaign, it was transported by steamers and railroads more than two thousand miles, and marched more than four hundred miles over the swampy roads of North Carolina, most of it during the most inclement season. After itut it was soon so improved that it became healthy and pleasant. On the 11th, a large force, including the Sixth, was sent to a ford of the Blackwater, to rout a rebel force. The regiment lost a gallant officer,—Lieutenant Barr, of Company I, Lawrence, who was shot through the heart. At midnight, Jan. 29, the regiment fell in, under General Corcoran, a part of a force of four thousand three hundred men, and marched towards Blackwater; the Sixth supporting our Seventh battery, who were unde