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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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Artifacts

Click on the icons for an enlarged view of these authentic artifacts from members of the Second Mass.  Be sure to visit links too.

Guidon5hi.jpg (27469 bytes)  Original Guidon of Company M of the California Battalion (Flag Page)

Lowell Bullet.jpg (124615 bytes)  The story of the Lowell/Pendergast Bullet coming soon.

Laddrbdg5hi.jpg (38175 bytes)  Ladder Badge.

Slouchat.jpg (7573 bytes) Slouch Hat: Identified to Capt. Rufus W. Smith. (Smith's biography)

  Captain J. Sewall Reed's Saber. (Reed's biography)

Hepbrn5_5hi.jpg (45649 bytes)   Lieutenant Hepburn's presentation saber (Hepburn's biography)

HaleSwd5hi.jpg (48266 bytes)  Lieutenant Henry W. Hale's inscribed saber (Hale's biography)

WelchSword.jpg (205120 bytes)  Lt. Horace B. Welch's inscribed saber (Welch's biography)

Robert6.jpg (11324 bytes)  Lt. Roberts inscribed cavalry sword (Robert's biography and Diary transcript)

 FoggColt2.jpg (180133 bytes) Nathan Fogg's Colt

WashburnItems.jpg (142688 bytes)  Francis Washburn's Relics (and biography)

2MSSaber(a).jpg (22203 bytes)   2nd Mass marked Cavalry Saber

Burnside_all.jpg (44110 bytes)  California Hundred marked Burnside carbine

pipesmall.jpg (5792 bytes)  Abraham Loane's POW pipe (Loane's biography).

LoaneColt.jpg (121547 bytes)  Abraham Loane's captured Mosby Colt

CartBoxWoods.jpg (169526 bytes)  James Wood's Spencer Cartridge Box

cmjeagp.jpg (49731 bytes)    Discharges, Documents, and Certificates (go to Paper Page)

engagements.jpg (118435 bytes)    J. D. McCarthy's list of all 41 engagements, dated July 8, 1865

stencil.jpg (10483 bytes)    Private George Small's dug stencil

Dug2Mass.jpg (102663 bytes)    Excavated artifacts from Second Mass campsites in Virginia