The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS--EARLY WAR ACTION IN MASSACHUSETTS--BIRTH OF THE REGIMENT, AND HOW IT CHANCED TO BE DESIGNATED THE TWENTY-NINTH.

The Twenty-ninth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers had its origin in some of the earliest war actions of the people of this patriotic Commonwealth, though its numerical designation would seem to suggest a state of facts quite th...