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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 3 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 2 2 Browse Search
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command of Colonel Isaac S. Burrill. The Forty-third Regiment was recruited at Camp Meigs, at Readville. It was recruited chiefly through the Second Battalion, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, with which organization a portion of the officers had been connected. On the twenty-fourth day of October, it went on board transports, together with the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Regiments, with orders to report to Major-General Foster at Newbern, N. C. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Charles L. Holbrook. While these three regiments were on the transports in Boston Harbor, a very severe easterly storm came on, which detained them several days, and caused much suffering among the troops. The Forty-fourth Regiment was recruited at Camp Meigs, at Readville. The Fourth Battalion, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, under Major Francis L. Lee, was the nucleus of this regiment. Nearly the whole battalion volunteered, officers and men. It left Boston, Oct. 22, by transport, under com
f Massachusetts troops. The following table shows the number of men in each regiment and in the Eleventh Battery who died, were killed, discharged, taken prisoners, and deserted:-- Regiments. Died. Killed. Disch'd. Pris'ners. Deserted. Third, Colonel Richmond 13 2 45 14 6 Fourth, Colonel Walker 120 8 25 3 15 Fifth, Colonel Pierson 13 – 43 – 29 Sixth, Colonel Follansbee 13 12 26 6 8 Eighth, Colonel Coffin 9 – 32 – 42 Forty-second, Colonel Burrill 32 4 45 14 62 Forty-third, Colonel Holbrook 13 2 65 – 89 Forty-fourth, Colonel Lee 24 8 81 – 3 Forty-fifth, Colonel Codman 32 10 61 – 48 Forty-sixth, Colonel Shurtleff 33 – 172 – 10 Forty-seventh, Colonel Marsh 25 2 103 – 219 Forty-eighth, Colonel Stone 50 10 66 – 154 Forty-ninth, Colonel Bartlett 84 21 67 1 32 Fiftieth, Colonel Messer 84 – 36 – 27 Fifty-first, Colonel Sprague 42 – 97 – 17 Fifty-second, Colonel Greenleaf 86 8 20 – 3 Fifty-third, Colonel Kimball 146 18 54 – 21 Eleventh Battery