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10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

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Country
  
United States

Branch
  
Infantry

Allegiance
  
Union

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Regiment

10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Active
  
June 21, 1861 – July 6, 1864

Part of
  
In 1862: 2nd Brigade (Devens's), 3rd Division (Newton's), VI Corps, Army of the Potomac

The 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on June 21, 1861. It was originally led by Colonel Henry Shaw Briggs, an attorney and prominent citizen of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Wikipedia