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10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
ActiveJune 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864
DisbandedJuly 6, 1864
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size1,218
Part ofIn 1862: 2nd Brigade ( Devens's), 3rd Division ( Newton's), VI Corps, Army of the Potomac
Commanders
Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs
Colonel Henry L. Eustis
Insignia
VI Corps (3rd Division) badge

The 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a regiment of infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on June 21, 1861. It was originally led by Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs, an attorney and prominent citizen of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. [1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Bowen, 196

References

  • Bowen, James L. (1889). Massachusetts in the War, 1861–1865. Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan & Co. OCLC  1986476.
  • Schouler, William (1868). A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War. Boston: E.P. Dutton & Co. OCLC  2662693.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
ActiveJune 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864
DisbandedJuly 6, 1864
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size1,218
Part ofIn 1862: 2nd Brigade ( Devens's), 3rd Division ( Newton's), VI Corps, Army of the Potomac
Commanders
Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs
Colonel Henry L. Eustis
Insignia
VI Corps (3rd Division) badge

The 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a regiment of infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on June 21, 1861. It was originally led by Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs, an attorney and prominent citizen of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. [1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Bowen, 196

References

  • Bowen, James L. (1889). Massachusetts in the War, 1861–1865. Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan & Co. OCLC  1986476.
  • Schouler, William (1868). A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War. Boston: E.P. Dutton & Co. OCLC  2662693.

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