10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
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| 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment | |
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| File:Flag of Massachusetts.svg | |
| Active | June 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864 |
| Disbanded | July 6, 1864 |
| Country | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States |
| Allegiance | Union |
| Branch | Infantry |
| Size | 1,218 |
| Part of | In 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 |  |
| Massachusetts U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 | ||||
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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
References
Citations
- ↑ Bowen, 196
Sources
- 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.
