Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865

Capt. James D. Russell, Company D of Boston, was ordered ‘to report his command to Lyman Dike, Colonel commanding the Nineteenth Regiment at the Camp at Lynnfield,’ in accordance with special order No. 366, A. G. O., Boston, July 25, 1861.

Company E, Capt. Andrew Mahoney, of Boston, was, by Special Order No. 348, dated A. G. O., Boston, July 15, 1861, ‘ordered to report with his command forthwith to Col. Dike, commanding, at Camp Schouler, Lynnfield.’

Company F, Capt. Edmund Rice, Cambridge, originally assigned to the Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, (and which by Special Order No. 365, dated A. G. O., Boston, July 2, 1861, had been included in the Companies ordered to compose the Twentieth Regiment,) was subsequently detached and assigned to the Nineteenth Regiment.

Company G, Capt. H. G. O. Weymouth of Lowell, was transferred from the Second Regiment and assigned to the Nineteenth Regiment at Lynnfield.

Company H, Capt. William H. Wilson, of Boston, was, by Special Order No. 356, dated A. G. O., Boston, July 19, 1861, ordered “to report with the men under his command to Col. Dike at Camp Schouler for orders, at half past 12 o'clock, on Saturday, July 12, 1861.”

(This Company was disbanded in the field later and a new Company recruited.)

Company I, Capt. Jonathan E. Plympton, was, with First Lieutenant Christopher C. Sampson, ordered ‘to report themselves, with the men under their command, at six o'clock this afternoon to Lyman Dike, Colonel commanding the Camp at Lynnfield’ per Special Order No. 363, dated A. G. O., Boston, July 25, 1861.

Company K, Capt. Ansel D. Wass, known as the Boston Tiger Fire Zouaves, was subsequently added to the Regiment making ten companies and its complement. This latter company wore a Zouave uniform of light blue baggy trousers, yellow