2020-07 2 sessions
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War-date Union Document Signed by Captain Charles N. Hunt and Captain George Nelson, 2pp. double folio, October 31, 1864, "In the field" listing all the men of Hunt's unit. Fine condition. The 39th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry was organized at Camp Stanton in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, August 13 through September 2, 1862, and mustered for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Phineas Stearns Davis. The regiment was attached to Grover's Brigade, Defenses of Washington, until February 1863, then to Jewett's Independent Brigade, XXII Corps, Department of Washington, until May 1863, the District of Washington, XXII Corps, until July 1863, the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, I Corps, Army of the Potomac, until March 1864, the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, V Corps, until June 1864, the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, V Corps, until September 1864, and finally the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, V Corps, until June 1865. The 39th Massachusetts Infantry mustered out of service at Washington, D.C. on June 1, 1865.
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