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Federal law (29 Stat. 120) approved use of national parks for military camps [23]: 86 after the Gettysburg National Military Park had been designated in 1895. 1898-09-28 Camp Snyder on the west of Seminary Ridge and south of the Fairfield Road was the 2nd WV Regiment encampment for the dedication of 4 West Virginia monuments. [24]
20 Mass. Infantry - Revere, Feirson, Bryant, Lee, Palfrey, Folsom, Hayward, ca. 1859–1870 Monument to the 20th Massachusetts Infantry on the Gettysburg battlefield; Roxbury Conglomerate. The 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Harvard Regiment", was a regiment of infantry in the American Civil War.
The 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] Major George H. Gordon [ note 1 ] (later Brigadier General ), a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican–American War , organized the unit's recruitment and formation.
The Gettysburg National Military Park is administered in the North Atlantic–Appalachian region, also known as the Northeast region. [22] Former and current Superintendents of the Gettysburg National Military Park. John P. Nicholson: 1895–1922 [23] Colonel Emmor B. Cope: 1922–1927 [23] James B. Aumen: 1927–1927 [23]
Park road system in 1998. As of 2008, the National Park Service unit managed 1,320 monuments and markers, 410 cannons, 148 historic buildings, and 41 miles (66 km) of roads (8 miles of them, unpaved). [2] The largest concentration of monuments is at the Gettysburg National Cemetery, where President Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.
Union veteran Sergeant Charles B. Lovell of Co. K, 35th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 35th Massachusetts was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
The 12th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on June 14, 1861, in Boston, Massachusetts . Its original commander was Colonel Fletcher Webster , son of the famed U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Daniel Webster .