Federal Regiment

2nd Massachusetts Infantry

Organized: West Roxbury, MA; mustered in 5/25/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Boston, MA 7/26/1865

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Col. George L. Andrews

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Twelfth Army Corps
  Division - 1st Division, 12th Corps
  Brigade - 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps

Unit history

The first Colonel was George H. Gordon, who organized and led the regiment until his promotion to brigade command (April 1862) and rank of Brigadier General (June 1862). He was succeeded by Colonel George L. Andrews.

On the Antietam Campaign

The Regiment fought in the Federal 12th Corps attack at the northern part of the battlefield on 17 September: through the Cornfield, and between the East and West Woods. The men of Collis' Independent Company - the "Zouaves d'Afrique" - were attached to the 2nd Massachusetts at Antietam. Lt Colonel Wilder Dwight was mortally wounded in combat with the regiment.

Statistics

Initial Strength: not known; Killed in Action (KIA): 18; Wounded (WIA): 54;

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes Miller's Cornfield (7-8 am)
Detail Map #3: Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)
Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods (9am-noon)
Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #54: Gordon's Brigade, Williams' Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #27: Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #28: Williams' Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #55: Gordon's Brigade, Williams' Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM

More on the Web

See also a selection of vignettes of the battle from the Gordon's Regulars website.

References & Notes

Sources: Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Co., 1908; and
The "Gordon's Regulars" website from Lynne Kennedy.

We have 102 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Davis, James A.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Dustin, Eben Sutton	MWIA 09/17
A	Capt	Francis, James	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hall, Jeremiah S.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Kittredge, Edwin R.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	McAlpine, Thomas D.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Richardson, Jesse	WIA 09/17
A	Lt	Sawyer, Nathan Dane Appleton
B	Pvt	Appleton, James M. P.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Cady, John D.	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Carney, John	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Christie, Robert	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Conlan, Peter
B	Pvt	Dillon, Thomas	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hoyt, Charles N.	POW 09/00
B	Sgt	Lundy, Francis Henry
B	Capt	Morse, Charles Fessenden
C	Pvt	Bennett, Thomas Y.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Burbank, Nathan	WIA 09/17
C	Capt	Cogswell, William
C	Pvt	Deveney, John	WIA 09/17
C	Lt	Fox, Jr., Thomas Bayley
C	Pvt	Gilday, Edward	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Joye, Robert H.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Knight, Jeremiah	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Magarvey, James	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	McLay, James	Died (d) 10/05
C	Pvt	Shea, John J.	WIA 09/17
D	Lt	Abbott, Fletcher Morton
D	Pvt	Balcom, Myron L.	KIA 09/17
D	Capt	Bangs, Jr., George Pemberton
D	Pvt	Barliter, Austin B.	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Bartlett, Anson B.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Blood, George Frances	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Chase, William Perry	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Cheney, Gilbert A.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Childs, Isaac	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Hewins, Henry	Died (d) 11/29
D	Pvt	Leary, Arthur	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Newton, Winsor A.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Sadler, Rupert J.
D	Pvt	Shattuck, Frederick Danforth	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Whyte, Alfred M.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Allen, Sidney W.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Fales, Albert Francis	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Harrington, Peter	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Hill, Isaac	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Parsons, William Roper	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Richardson, Erastus J.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Richardson, Gardner Hamlin	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Roser, Charles
E	Pvt	Snow, Charles	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Treen, John S.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Wynn, Daniel	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Annis, Stilman L.	Died (d) 11/22
F	Corp	Brooks, Joel J.	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Day, Albion W.	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Douglass, John F.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Durgin, Daniel	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Jepson, Samuel L.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Martin, Solomon	KIA 09/17
F	Capt	Mudge, Charles Redington	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Phillips, Erwin Timothy	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Pierce, Ivory W.M.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Whitney, Jared P.	AWOL 09/15
G	Corp	Dix, Charles E.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Green, John S.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Jones, Edward	Died (d) 11/17
G	Pvt	Remick, Prescott	MWIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Richardson, Moses P.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Tiffany, Owen	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Angell, Charles	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Brown, Thomas	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Brown, Jr., Thomas	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Burke, Thomas	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Chase, George Washington	WIA 09/17
H	Lt	Crowninshield, Francis Welch	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Donnovan, John	KIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Gelray, Joseph Wiley	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Moore, John	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	O'Brien, Jeremiah	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Remick, Benjamin F.	KIA 09/17
H	Capt	Shaw, Robert Gould	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Thompson, Thomas	AWOL 09/12
I	Capt	Choate, Jr., Rufus
I	Corp	Collins, Thomas A.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Costello, John	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Ford, John	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Fox, John Andrews
I	Pvt	Kennier, Bartholomew	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Mills, Charles James	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Augers, John	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Carter, Peter
K	Corp	Casey, Timothy	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Devine, Thomas	AWOL 09/12
K	Pvt	Johnson, Albert F.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	McMullen, Michael	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Vance, Lorin A.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Wilson, Alexander C.	WIA 09/17
F&S	Col	Andrews, George Leonard
F&S	LCol	Dwight, Wilder	MWIA 09/17
F&S	ASrg	Stone, Lincoln Ripley

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