51st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

51st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Massachusetts state flag
Active September 25, 1862 July 27, 1863
Country  United States of America
Allegiance Union
Branch Union Army
Type Infantry
Engagements Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro (North Carolina)

The 51st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[1]

History

The Fifty-first Regiment was organized at Worcester September 25 to October 30, 1862,[1] during which time Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a captain in the unit.[2] November 25–30, the unit moved to Boston, and from there to Newberne, North Carolina.

Attachments

Service

Mustered out July 27, 1863.[1]

See also

References and notes

  1. 1 2 3 Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System of the National Park Service (retrieved on 2009 December 8) refers to it as "51st Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Militia)."
  2.  Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Higginson, Stephen". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.


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