Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Col.” in chapter 2 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative:
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First Division.—Artillery, 1st Light Battery (A), Capt. W. H. McCartney.
Third Division.—2d Brigade, 7th Mass., Col. T. D. Johns; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwards.
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