History of the 11th Massachusetts regiment, 1862.

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History of the 11th Massachusetts regiment, 1862.

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The narrator describes the organization of the regiment; life at Ft. Warren and Camp Cameron (Stanton); journey to Washington and Alexandria; battle of Bull Run, move to Bladensburg and Budd's Ferry; voyage to the Peninsula; siege of Yorktown; battle of Williamsburg; the battlefield at Fair Oaks; battle of White Oak Swamp; and reconnaissance at Malvern Hill. There are frequent references to Colonels George Clark, Jr., and William Blaisdell, and Major Porter D. Tripp, as well as other officers, and generals Joseph Hooker, Samuel P. Heintzelman, and Cuvier Grover. The author describes parades, marches, privations, construction of earthworks, picket duty, the local populace, malarial fever in the troops, burial of the dead, and the unjust punishment of an officer. After each battle he lists the killed, wounded, and missing by companies. With the history is a photograph [of the author?] Based on a comparison with photographs of officers of the 11th Massachusetts, the pictured man is almost certainly Lieutenant Henry Heath.

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Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879

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Hooker was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, the grandson of a captain in the American Revolutionary War. He was of entirely English ancestry, all of which had been in New England since the early 1600s. His initial schooling was at the local Hopkins Academy. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, ranked 29th out of a class of 50, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. His initial assignment was in Florida fighting in the second of the Seminole War...

Heintzelman, Samuel Peter, 1805-1880

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Heintzelman was born in Manheim, Pennsylvania, to Peter and Ann Elizabeth Grubb Heintzelman. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1826 and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry, July 1, 1826, then in the 2nd U.S. Infantry and served on the Northern frontier at Fort Gratiot, Fort Mackinac, and Fort Brady. On March 4, 1833, he was promoted to first lieutenant and served on quartermaster's duty in Florida during the Second Seminole War. On July 7, 1...

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865)

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Tripp, Porter D., 1826-

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Blaisdell, William E., 1815-1864

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William E. Blaisdell was an enlisted man in the Regular Army of the United States prior to and during the Mexican–American War. After Mexican War, he returned to civilian life as an inspector in the Boston Customs House. At the commencement of the Civil War he was offered the rank of captain in the Regular Army but instead chose to serve in the Volunteer Army, accepting the rank of lieutenant colonel with the 11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was eventually promoted to colonel a...

Heath, Henry, fl. 1862.

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From a comparison with Gustavus Hutchison's Narrative of the Formation and Services of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers and Henry Blake's Three Years in the Army of the Potomac, the author does not appear to be the author of either of these two works. Photographs of officers of the regiment supplied by the Army Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pa., include Lt. Henry Heath who bears an almost exact resemblance to the man in the photograph included with the collection. Heath was with C...

Clark, George, fl. 1861.

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Grover, Cuvier, 1828-1885,

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Edwards, Mary Roy Dawson,

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