| 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry | |
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 Monument dedicated to the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry near Spangler's Spring on the Gettyburg Battlefield | |
| Active | May 25, 1861, to July 26, 1865 |
| Country |  United States of America |
| Allegiance | Union |
| Branch | Union Army |
| Type | Infantry |
| Size | 1,687 |
| Part of | In 1863: 3rd Brigade (Ruger's), 1st Division (Williams's), XII Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| Motto(s) | We carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union. |
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| XII Corps badge (First division) |  |
| Massachusetts U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 | ||||
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The 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[1] Major George H. Gordon[note 1] (later Brigadier General), a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican–American War, organized the unit's recruitment and formation. The 2nd Massachusetts was trained at Camp Andrew in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on the site of the former Transcendentalist utopian community, Brook Farm.[2] Roughly half the regiment was mustered in on May 18, 1861 and the remainder on May 25, 1861 for a term of three years. The regiment saw extensive combat as part of the Army of the Potomac particularly during the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg.[3]
- ^ Dyer (1908), p. 1248; Federal Publishing Company (1908), p. 168.
- ^ Federal Publishing Company (1908), p. 168.
- ^ Dyer (1908), p. 1248.
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