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20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Field	Value
unit_name	20th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
image	Flag of Massachusetts.svg
image_size	220
dates	August 29, 1861 – July 28, 1865
country	United States of America
allegiance	Union
branch	United States Army
type	Infantry
size	1,978
command_structure	In 1863: 3rd Brigade (Hall's), 2nd Division (Gibbon's), II Corps, Army of the Potomac
nickname	"The Harvard Regiment"
battle_honours
notable_commanders	Col. Paul J. Revere
Col. William R. Lee
Lt. Henry L. Abbott
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identification_symbol_label	II Corps (2nd Division) badge

Col. William R. Lee Lt. Henry L. Abbott

20 Mass. Infantry - Revere, Feirson, Bryant, Lee, Palfrey, Folsom, Hayward, ca. 1859–1870

The 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Harvard Regiment", was a regiment of infantry in the American Civil War. The regiment was so nicknamed because the officers of the 20th were young Harvard graduates. In addition, some, but not all, of the private soldiers had attended Harvard. The 20th was organized at Camp Meigs in Readville, August 29 to September 4, 1861. After training they left Massachusetts for Washington, D. C., September 4. They would fight until the war's conclusion being mustered out on July 16 and discharged July 28, 1865. Fogel et al's Union Army Data urban sample suggests perhaps as many as two-thirds of the regiment's enlisted were immigrants with Irish immigrants making up half of the regiment's total.

Brigade, divisional and corps attachments

Attached to Lander's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861. Lander's Brigade, Stone's (Sedgwick's) Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July, 1865.

Battles

With the exception of First Bull Run, the 20th participated in all of the major battles and many of the smaller battles fought by the Army of the Potomac. Their baptism of fire occurred at Ball's Bluff on October 21, 1861. Other battles included the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the Siege of Petersburg, and the Appomattox Campaign.

Casualties

The 20th regiment lost 17 officers and 243 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and one officer and 148 enlisted men from disease. The total casualties were 409. The regiment ranks first among Massachusetts regiments and fifth among Union regiments in total casualties.

Notable members

Henry L. Abbott
William Bartlett
Joseph Hayes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Norwood "Pen" Hallowell
Edward Needles Hallowell
William Raymond Lee
Francis Winthrop Palfrey
Paul Joseph Revere
Henry Martyn Tremlett

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Citations

Sources

References

[http://www.harvardregiment.org/overvw.html "The Harvard Regiment"]. Retrieved on 2008-02-15

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