24th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an
infantry regiment in the
Union army during the
American Civil War. It was organized around September-December 1861 at
Camp Massasoit
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Outdoor accommodation and recreation
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* a temporary settlement for nomads
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in
Readville, under Col.
Thomas G. Stevenson.
The regiment served with the
Coast Division commanded by
Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside. The Coast Division was deployed in January 1862 for operations on the coast of North Carolina, and participated in the
Battle of Roanoke Island and the
Battle of New Bern among other engagements.
Commanders
Colonel Francis A. Osborn
Service
On December 9, the regiment left Massachusetts for
Annapolis
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,
Maryland and was part of
Foster's Brigade, itself a part of
Burnside's Expeditionary Corps. The regiment took part in the
Battle of Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862, and the Battle of New Bern on March 14.
See also
*
Massachusetts in the Civil War
*
List of Massachusetts Civil War units
Units raised in Massachusetts during the American Civil War consisted of 62 regiments of infantry, six regiments of cavalry, 16 batteries of light artillery, four regiments of heavy artillery, two companies of sharpshooters, a handful of unattach ...
* Roe, Alfred S.
The Twenty-fourth Regiment, Massachusuetts Volunteers, 1861-1866'. (1907).
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Units and formations of the Union Army from Massachusetts