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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.

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Articles and References

See also the list of recommended books on the HOME PAGE.

Articles

The Abbie Lord Autograph Book

Boston Greets the Bold Californians from the Boston Advertiser Jan. 15, 1863.

2nd Mass Flag Page

Valorus Dearborn's Diary

George Buhrer's Diary

Captured by Mosby's Men (Dranesville)

Off to War on the Golden Age and Constitution

2nd Mass' Medals of Honor

Regimental Demographics

Regimental Insignia

First Sgt. Wakefield and the Little White Church

Yankee Davis the Scout (and Mt. Zion's Church)

Charlie Binns, Union Man & Scout

Private Pringle's Final Days

A Letter from Lt. Wm. Parker (see Artifacts Page for another Parker letter)

John Cain's Andersonville Testimony

Patriot Preacher: Thomas Starr King 

Pvt. McCarthy's One Page History

Corporal Hanscom's Letters Home

Execution of a Traitor

Skirmish at Arcola, Virginia

Skirmish at Leesburg, Virginia

A. K. A. Charles Hill

Memorials: A Photographic Album of our Veterans' Grave Sites

Biographies

Recommended Reading

bookcover.jpg (36687 bytes)  California Sabers, The Second Massachusetts in the Civil War by James McLean.  Available from Amazon.com.

ParsonCover.jpg (18101 bytes)  Bear Flag and Bay State: The Californians of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry by Thomas Parson. Available on Amazon.com.

RogersCover.jpg (18725 bytes)  Their Horses Climbed Trees by Larry Rogers & Keith Rogers.  Available at Barnes and Noble or www.schifferbooks.com

FiddlersGreenCover.jpg (17357 bytes)   The Letters From Fiddlers Green (fiction) by Michael Fitzpatrick.  Available at Amazon.com 

natureofsacrifice.jpg (25317 bytes)    The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64 by Carol Bundy. Available from Amazon.com.

Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, Captain Sixth United States Cavalry, Colonel Second Massachusetts Cavalry, Brigadier General United States Volunteers. Lowell, Charles Russell, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson. Boston: 1907.

Field, Camp, Hospital and Prison in the Civil War, 1863-1865  Humphreys, Charles A., Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 1918

"The Sojourn of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry in Vienna." by Harrison, Noel. Northern Virginia Heritage, 7 (June 1985), pp. 11-12.

"Jubal Early and the Californians"
by Mike Fitzpatrick Civil War Times Illustrated, May 1998

"Thirty Years Later  'I will clean them out or I will not come back' " by Richard K. Tibbals CWTI, April, 1986

"Go East, Young Man," by Richard K. Tibbals Military Images, Vol. 5 #6 May 1984

and from the Southern perspective:

Partisan Life with Mosby, by Major John Scott, 1867
Mosby's Rangers, by James J. Williamson, 1896
Ranger Mosby, by Virgil Carrington Jones, 1944
Gray Ghost The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby, James A. Ramage, 1999