The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Late War of the Rebellion

MOVEMENT TO WELLS’S FARM--THE CAMP AT PEGRAM’S FARM--BUILDING OF WINTER QUARTERS--ORDERED BACK TO PETERSBURG--DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE MEN--THE REGIMENT OCCUPIES BATTERY NO. 11--FR...

January came in with a series of pleasant days, but with heavy frosts at night. On the 10th, however, there was a cold rain-storm, and the weather which immediately followed thi...

MARCH TO THE FRONT--FAIR OAKS--ASSIGNED TO THE IRISH BRIGADE--HARD SERVICE--SHARPSHOOTING--THE AFFAIR OF JUNE 15, AND DEATH OF BROWN--THE WOODCHOPPING AFFAIR--BATTLE OF GAINES’...

THE REGIMENT LEAVES NEWPORT NEWS--ORDERED TO FREDERICKSBURG--BATTLE OF CENTREVILLE--A DRILL IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY--MARCH THROUGH MARYLAND--BATTLES OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN AND ANTIE...

THE SINKING OF THE “CUMBERLAND” AND DESTRUCTION OF THE “CONGRESS”--FIGHT BETWEEN THE “MERRIMACK” AND “MONITOR”--THE “MERRIMACK” AND OTHER CONFEDERATE VESSELS ENTER HAMPTON ROADS...

MOVEMENTS AFTER THE SIEGE--THE REGIMENT LEAVES KNOXVILLE--THE CONDITION OF THE TROOPS--BLAINE’S CROSS-ROADS--THE MEN RE-ENLIST--STRAWBERRY PLAIN--FIGHT WITH THE CONFEDERATE CAVA...

THE TRANSFERRED MEN IN THE THIRTY-SIXTH REGIMENT--THEY MARCH OVER THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS--GO WITH THE NINTH CORPS TO ANNAPOLIS, MD.--THE CORPS ORDERED TO THE FRONT--MARCH THRO...

THE REGIMENT LEAVES ANTIETAM--MARCH TO HARPER’S FERRY--THE RECONNOISSANCE TO CHARLESTOWN, VA.--THE LOUDON VALLEY CAMPAIGN--CHANGE OF COMMANDERS--THE GREEN FLAG AFFAIR--BATTLE OF...

MOVEMENTS AFTER THE BATTLE OF JUNE 17--BATTLE OF THE MINE--A LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED--VARIOUS MOVEMENTS OF THE REGIMENT--DEATH OF MAJOR CHIPMAN--BATTLE OF BLICK’S HOUSE--POPL...

THE RETREAT CONTINUED--BATTLES OF WHITE OAK SWAMP, CHARLES CITY CROSS ROADS, AND MALVERN HILL--THE ARMY FALLS BACK TO HARRISON’S LANDING--GENERAL MEAGHER’S SPEECH TO THE TWENTY-...

BATTLES OF BLUE SPRINGS, HOUGH’S FERRY, AND CAMPBELL’S STATION--SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE--THE SUFFERINGS OF THE MEN--BATTLE OF FORT SANDERS--GALLANT CONDUCT OF THE REGIMENT--IT CAPTUR...

THE REGIMENT MARCHES ON JACKSON--JEFFERSON DAVIS’S HOUSE--SIEGE OF JACKSON--THE REGIMENT UNDER FIRE--EVACUATION OF THE CITY--A PART OF THE CITY IS BURNT BY THE ENEMY--RETURN TO...

For the reasons already stated, it seems necessary to give a brief account of the doings of the Fourth Regiment while in the field, embracing as they do a part of the record of...

The time which was spent by the Battalion at Newport News after it was last ordered here (Aug. 18, 1861), covering as it did the remainder of the term of service as such an orga...

DEPARTURE OF THE REGIMENT FROM NEWPORT NEWS--CAPTURE OF NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH--THE “MERRIMACK” BLOWN UP--THE OCCUPATION OF THE CAPTURED CITIES--CAMP HARRISON--THE REGIMENT CHAR...

CAPTAINS LEACH’S AND WILSON’S COMPANIES LEAVE THE RIP-RAPS--ORDERED TO NEWPORT NEWS--GENERAL MANSFIELD RELIEVES GENERAL PHELPS--THE DRILLS CONTINUED--TARGET PRACTICE--WINTER QUA...

THE REVIEW IN FORTRESS MONROE--A FOURTH OF JULY BATTLE--FORMATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BATTALION--CAPTAIN LEACH’S COMPANY SENT TO THE RIP-RAPS--GUARDING PRISONERS--BURNING OF HA...

THE REGIMENT LEAVES SOMERSET AND IS ORDERED TO VICKSBURG--MARCH OVER THE COUNTRY TO NICHOLASVILLE--RECEPTION AT PARIS, KY.--GOES TO CINCINNATI--THE JOURNEY TO CAIRO AND MEMPHIS-...

The author has given, in the preceding chapters, detailed accounts of the formation of the seven companies of the Twenty-ninth Regiment which earliest enlisted. Pursuing the nar...

This company, raised almost wholly in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, was the direct outgrowth of a series of war meetings, the first of which was held April 20, 1861, the da...

The Twenty-ninth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers had its origin in some of the earliest war actions of the people of this patriotic Commonwealth, though its numerical d...

With a notice of only a few hours, a very large meeting of the inhabitants of Sandwich, Barnstable County, was held on the evening of Saturday, April 20, 1861. The news of the a...

The honored old Pilgrim town of Plymouth was among the first in the State to take an active part in the work of furnishing troops for the Union army. Here was an organized body...

As early as the first of March, 1861, Jonas K. Tyler, Esq., a member of the Suffolk bar, and who had seen service in the war with Mexico, offered his services to Governor Andrew...

On the 20th of April, 1861, Joseph H. Barnes, a citizen of East Boston, and a native of Hingham, Plymouth County, having been authorized by the Governor, raised a company of inf...

On the nineteenth day of April, 1861, a day memorable in the history of the war, Thomas William Clarke, a member of the Suffolk County bar, threw from an office-window on Washin...

On the 17th of April, 1861, William D. Chamberlain of Lynn received authority from the Governor to raise a company of militia, to form a part of the Eighth Regiment of Militia,...

The Federal movement on the enemy’s left flank, “which created some alarm,” referred to by our informant, and spoken of above, was unquestionably that of the battalion of Lieute...