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The Second Mass and Its Fighting Californians

A Reference site of images, articles, artifacts of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry including the Cal 100 and the Cal Battalion.

Home History Personnel Images Artifacts Cal. GAR Today's 2nd Mass Articles/References

 

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Images: Staff

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Over 2500 men served in the Second Massachusetts.  If you have an image of one of them, 
please send it to
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Image Pages
Staff
The Hundred
The Battalion
Co.'s B, C, D, G, H, I, K

 

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Group of Officers
Mike Sorenson Collection
[got to Officers' Page 1]

Camp, Vienna, February 1864
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Camp, Vienna, February 1864
USAMHI collection
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Brigade Hospital, Vienna, Va. Officers' Quarters, Vienna, February 1864

Regimental Band
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Charles Lowell
Colonel
[bio]

Colonel Lowell & Wife Effie

 

M. Sorenson

 

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Caspar Crowninshield
Colonel 
Henry S. Russell
Lt. Colonel
William H. Forbes
Lt. Col.

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M. Sorenson

 

M. Sorenson Rick Carlile USAMHI
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Archibald McKendry
Major
William Rumery
Major
DeWitt Thompson
Major
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USAMHI W. Sherman Sutter's Fort State Historical Park 
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George Blagden
Major
Joseph Mansfield Brown Quartermaster Charles Humphreys
Chaplain  (bio)
MOLLUS USAMHI Jeff Randolph