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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 1 1 Browse Search
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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., Fifty-fourth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
––––––1,442 The 54th Mass. Infantry was the first regiment of colored men raised in the Northern States east of the Mississippi River. Authority for recruiting such a regiment was given Governor Andrew by the Secretary of War in an order dated Jan. 26, 1863. Capt. Robert G. Shaw of the 2d Mass. Infantry was placed in charge of the regiment during its formation, and was commissioned colonel April 17. All the commissioned officers except the chaplain were white until the muster of Lieut. S. A. Swails, May 14, 1864. Recruiting began in Boston on February 9; men were also sent from Philadelphia, but the larger part of the members were obtained through the efforts of a recruiting committee appointed by Governor Andrew, which drew its recruits from stations established from Boston to St. Louis, largely under the direction of Maj. G. L. Stearns. Four companies having been mustered into service at Readville, March 30, three on April 23 and the remaining three May 13, the regiment
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
s. Inf., 553 Sullivan, Patrick, 15th Mass. Inf., 553 Sullivan, Patrick, 21st Mass. Inf., 495 Sullivan, T. D., 423 Sullivan, T. J., 24th Mass. Inf., 482 Sullivan, T. J., 40th Mass. Inf., 423 Sullivan, Thomas, 553 Sullivan, Timothy, 553 Sully, Alfred, 55 Sumner, Charles, 18 Sumner, E. O., 482 Sumner, E. V., 51, 56, 75, 133, 222, 232, 250 Sumner, F. H., 483 Sumner, S. B., 288 Sunning, John, 553 Suter, Valentine, 423 Sutherland, George, 65, 423 Sutherland, W. H., 55, 423 Swails, S. A., 298 Swain, W. H., 423 Swallow, V. F., 423 Swan, Charles, 553 Swan, Daniel, 483 Swan, John, 423 Swan, W. W., 70 Swaney, W. H., 423 Swasey, B. B., 483 Swears, Henry, 423 Sweeney, James, 17th Mass. Inf., 553 Sweeney, James, 28th Mass. Inf., 553 Sweeney, Morgan, 423 Sweeney, N. I., 423 Sweeney, Patrick, 483 Sweeney, Timothy, 423 Sweeney, W. A., 423 Sweet, Caleb, 553 Sweet, L. H., 483 Sweet, N. O., 483 Sweet, W. B., 553 Sweetser, Francis, 483 Sweetser, J. E., 563 Swe