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The 1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters was organized in Lynn, Massachusetts and mustered in for three years service on September 2, 1861. [1] The company was originally recruited for Colonel Hiram Berdan's sharpshooter regiments.
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 unattached battalions and 26 unattached companies. [1]
The 1st United States Sharpshooters were an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. During battle, the mission of the sharpshooter was to kill enemy targets of importance (i.e., officers, NCOs, and artillery crews) from long range. The first regiment of volunteers began service in late November 1860 ...
1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies C and D; 80th New York (20th Militia) ... 1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters; 7th Michigan; 42nd New York; 59th New York;
1st Brigade BG Alexander S. Webb. 19th Maine: Col Selden Connor; 1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters: Lt Samuel G. Gilbreth; 15th Massachusetts: Maj I. Harris Hooper; 19th Massachusetts: Maj Edmund Rice; 20th Massachusetts: Col George N. Macy (w), Maj Henry L. Abbott (mw) 7th Michigan: Maj Sylvanus W. Curtis; 42nd New York: Maj Patrick J ...
1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters; 7th Michigan; 42nd New York; 59th New York; 82nd New York (2nd Militia) 36th Wisconsin [40] 2nd Brigade BG Joshua T. Owen.
The University of Texas massacre of 1966 was conducted by an ex-Marine sharpshooter with a sniper’s rifle. Such events were rare, not to say impossible, until the return of automatic firepower ...
1st Brigade BG Willis A. Gorman. 15th Massachusetts: Col John W. Kimball; 1st Minnesota: Col Alfred Sully; 34th New York: Col James A. Suiter; 82nd New York: Ltc Henry W. Hudson; 1st Company, Massachusetts Sharpshooters: [2] Cpt John Saunders; 2nd Company, Minnesota Sharpshooters: [3] Cpt William F. Russell; 2nd Brigade BG William W. Burns