41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Massachusetts state flag
Active 1862
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry

The 41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[1]

History

The Forty-first Regiment left Boston in 1862 in the command of Thomas E. Chickering. The regiment was sent to New Orleans in December of that year, and performed efficient service in the field.[2]

See also

References and notes

  1. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System of the National Park Service (Retrieved on 2009 December 5) does not list a "41st Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry", and in that position has "40th Regiment, Massachusetts Militia Infantry."
  2.  Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Chickering, Jonas". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.


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