Federal Regiment

13th Massachusetts Infantry

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Maj. J. Parker Gould

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - First Army Corps
  Division - 2nd Division, 1st Corps
  Brigade - 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Corps

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #1: Hookers First Corps Sweeps Down the Hagerstown Pike (5-7 am)
Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes Miller's Cornfield (7-8 am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #1: First Army Corps - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #14: Ricketts' Division, First Army Corps - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #7: Ricketts' Division, First Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #10: Hartsuff's Brigade, Ricketts' Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 8 AM
Tablet #81: Ricketts' Division, First Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

References & Notes

See Brad Forbush's excellent 13th Massachusetts Volunteers site for much more about this unit. He also has a page specific to their service at Antietam, with photos and extracts from letters, diaries, and post-War documentation written by the men who were there.

We have 157 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Acken, William C.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Allen, Edward F.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Barry, William Francis	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Bowker, George B.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Bowker, Jr., Theodore P.	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Chenery, Jr., David	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Dammers, James	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Dawes, Ambrose	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Fowler, Walter S.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Gould, Samuel Shelton	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Granger, Louis Edwin
A	Pvt	Haynes, Augustine B.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hebard, Henry J. Amor	WIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Henderson, Robert B.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Lowell, James Howard	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Nelson, Charles R.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Nutze, Emanuel	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Nye, John A.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Pollard, Walter F.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Sawyer, George B.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Shelton, Albert F.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Shelton, Charles William	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Shelton, John Parker	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Soule, William S.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Tainter, George A.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Thurber, James Danforth	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Armstrong, Robert M.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Brigham, Alfred W.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Cody, James	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Dexter, Elbridge L.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Dorr, Levi Lewis	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Emerson, George M.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Hicks, David F.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Noyes, John Buttrick	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Richards, Charles N.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Rooney, Peter J.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Wakefield, George F.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Whidden, Philon Currier	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Worcester, George Samuel	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Allen, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Appleton, J. S.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Appleton, Thomas Larkin	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Archibald, Edward	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Bingham, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Currier, Samuel	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Dyer, Albert W.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Ewell, William F.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Foley, John	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Sheafe, Albert A.	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Stimpson, Isaac H.	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Wood, Ephraim A.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Anderson, George B.	AWOL 09/10
D	Pvt	Anderson, William J.	AWOL 09/10
D	Pvt	Bartlett, Darwin F.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Bowman, Ira	MWIA 09/17
D	Lt	Carey, William H.	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Dana, Isaac D.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Faden, James I.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Greenwood, Gilbert H.	WIA 09/17
D	Capt	Hovey, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Kendall, James T. E.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Lawrence, Joshua T.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Leslie, George F.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Litchfield, Benjamin	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Pearson, Edward A.	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Reed, James K. P.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Ripley, Francis B.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Saunders, Austin W.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Thurber, David Sibley	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Tobey, George H.	WIA 09/17
D	Mus	Webster, Samuel Derrick
E	Pvt	Bacon, James	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Baker, John	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Bean, John Elmon	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Krasinski, Anton	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Morse, Charles C.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Barron, William D.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Battles, Henry T.	AWOL 09/26
F	Pvt	Garfield, Samuel H.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Haynes, Charles E.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Howe, Charles A.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Howe, William P.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Mann, Jonathan P.	AWOL 09/17
F	Pvt	Moore, John H.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Oddy, Thomas Jefferson	KIA 09/17
F	Lt	Pope, Abel H.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Prouty, Elphonzo Wood	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Stone, James L.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Wheeler, Nathan R.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Wood, Eli H.	AWOL 09/17
G	Pvt	Aiken, Daniel C.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Berry, George O.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Boyce, George P.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Bryant, Solon A.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Callahan, John O.	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Dale, Charles R.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Drew, Charles F.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Eastman, Edmund G.	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Field, Thomas G.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Fiske, Eugene A.	WIA 09/17
G	Lt	Foley, John H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Foss, Henry M.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	LaClaire, John E.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Lang, Charles Henry	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Lufler, Hiram H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Parker, George H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Perkins, John O.	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Sanborn, Herschel Almeran	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Smith, Edward	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Spencer, John W.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Weston, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Whittemore, Ephraim T.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Whittier, Charles A.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Adams, Henry P.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Barker, Cyrus E.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Berry, Nathaniel F.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Everett, Shepard S.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Favour, Luther Francis	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Gale, George W.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Gray, Daniel B.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hall, Adna Penniman	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Morse, Newton	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Morse, Willard	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Reed, Daniel Elbridge	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Smith, George Wallace	MIA (r) 09/17
H	Pvt	Smith, James N.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Winch, Lovell P.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Collins, John M.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Donovan, Dennis J.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hastings, Frank W.	AWOL 09/28
I	Pvt	Howe, Rufus	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Parker, Benjamin W.	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Parker, Charles S.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Russell, Benjamin F.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bruce, Warren E.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Chamberlain, Althama E.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Clifford, George W.	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Cutting, James H.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Davenport, Melvin A.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Drayton, Charles
K	Pvt	Fairbanks, Henry A.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Fay, William W.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Fox, Charles Barnard	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Gassett, Thomas R.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Gassett, William H.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Gates, George H.	WIA 09/17
K	Sgt	Greenwood, Abner R.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hartwell, George E.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Holden, Hollis	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Perry, Abel O.	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Sibley, William H.	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Stearns, Austin C.
K	Pvt	Sylvester, Horace C.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Trask, Charles A.	MWIA 09/17
K	Corp	Walker, Melvin H.
K	Pvt	Wellington, Charles H.	MWIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Gould, Jacob Parker

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