Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 4, page 164 of William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1:
...nfantry, and one regiment of cavalry.
Nothing was said or intimated in the Secretary's order about the proportion of men or regiments which each State was to furnish.
At this time, there were, in Massachusetts , upwards of ten thousand men organized into
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