The 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was reconstituted in early 1898 as a unit of volunteers to fight in the Spanish–American War, under the command of Colonel Edmund Rice. The unit should not to be confused with the

6th Infantry Regiment The 6th Infantry Regiment ("Regulars") was formed 11 January 1812. Zachary Taylor, later the twelfth President of the United States, was a commander of the unit. The motto, "Regulars, By God!" derives from the Battle of Chippawa, in which Briti ...

of Regulars, which also fought in the war, though in the Philippines and Cuba. 6th Massachusetts deployed to Puerto Rico, landed at Guanica and worked its way east and inland to Ponce and Arecibo. In October of that year, it returned to Massachusetts and was disbanded. The unit's experience in the Spanish–American War was recorded by Lance-Corporal George King of the regiment's Concord Company in his letters home, which he later published in 1929.

References

* King, George G. ''Letters of a Volunteer in the Spanish–American War.'' Chicago: Hawkins & Loomis, 1929.

External links

Library of Congress American Memory: Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
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