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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., Sixteenth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
Totals,6––3423222743–38 Actual total of members of regiment,— Officers,1461––––––––––––75 Enlisted men, Including non-commissioned staff.8–2312313012111813412712211212312861,275 Totals,––––––––––––––1,350 The companies forming the 16th Mass. Infantry had mostly been recruited singly in April and May, 1861, and being united at Camp Cameron, Cambridge, were mustered into service on dates varying from June 29 to July 12, 1861. Under command of Col. Powell T. Wyman, a graduate of West Point, who had returned from Europe to offer his services to the government, the regiment left the State Aug. 17, 1861, and was stationed in camp near Baltimore, Md., until September 1; moving then to Fortress Monroe, it encamped near Hampton, Va., during the autumn and winter of 1861 and 1862. In May, 1862, it moved successively to Portsmouth and Suffolk, Va., and June 12 joined the army of the Potomac at Fair Oaks. While encamped at Fair
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Eighteenth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
307 Totals,––––––––––––––1,375 The 18th Mass. Infantry was recruited in July and August, 1861, and on August 26 left the State as a battalion of eight companies, in command of Col. (afterwards brigadier general) James Barnes, a graduate of West Point. The two additional companies necessary to complete the regiment joined the command in September and November, 1861. The regiment, forming part of Martindale's Brigade, Porter's Division, 3d Corps, Army of the Potomac, was stationed for a timdered to Hall's Hill, where it remained until the spring of 1862. In March, 1862, it moved to the Peninsula, and April 5 took part in the assault at Yorktown and was active during the siege; after the surrender the regiment moved by the way of West Point and White House to Gaines's Mill, and, arriving May 26, went into camp. June 26, detached from the brigade and forming part of the force under General Stoneman, it was ordered to White House, and moved later by the way of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Twentieth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
ing elsewhere within regiment.–––211–––114––10 Totals,4––4544–65482–46 Actual total of members of regiment,— Officers,2592––––––––––––117 Enlisted men,12–24254220216212217241240217235227382,353 Totals,––––––––––––––2,470 The 20th Mass. Infantry was recruited at Readville, Mass., in July and August, 1861. The officers having been mustered in during July and the main body of the regiment August 28, the command left the State September 4 under Col. William Raymond Lee, a graduate of West Point. As it was not yet recruited to the maximum, two officers remained in Massachusetts for further recruiting. The regiment was sent to Poolesville, Md., and took an active part at Ball's Bluff October 21, crossing the river at Harrison's Island about noon of that day and engaging in the battle of the afternoon with great loss. Colonel Lee was made prisoner and Lieutenant-Colonel Palfrey took charge of the regiment.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Thirty-first regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
,— Officers,1538–––––––––––53 Enlisted men, Including non-commissioned staff.10–14313413412813512510612112614461,312 Totals,–––––––––––––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 of West Point, and first lieutenant 10th U. S. Infantry. General Butler and his staff embarked at Fortress Monroe on the Mississippi, which carried the regiment to Ship Island, where they landed March 23, having been delayed by storms and accident on the passage. Soon after the arrival of the regiment its designation was changed to the 31st Mass. Infantry. Assigned to General Williams's Brigade, it took part in the operations against New Orleans, was the fi