Manuscript record book for Co. G, 23rd Massachusetts Infantry.

Beverly, MA, and various places in eastern North Carolina, coastal South Carolina, and Virginia: 1861-1864. 8vo (22 cm.). (4), 236 [each even numbered page with ink number at upper corner, odd numbered pages numbered through 85], (2) pp. 101 pages with manuscript entries covering a variety of topics, as follows: muster roll for seven officers, 23 non-commissioned officers, and more than 100 privates serving in Co. G, covering 14 pages (name, rank, home residence, physical description occupation, date of enlistment, and "remarks," to include notes of assignments, promotions, discharges, transfers, and resignations; list of company members receiving furloughs, 6 pages; list of soldiers on special duty assignments, 5 pages; list of soldiers on detached service, 3 pages; non-commissioned officers reduced in rank, 1 page; deaths, 1 page; wounded, 1 page; discharges, 1 page; lists of company members not in battles of actions at Roanoke Island, New Bern, Tarboro (i.e., those left at "Little Washington"), Goldsboro, South Carolina Expedition, Hill's Point (Beaufort Co., NC), Trenton, Cedar Point, Washington Road, Winton, Broad Creek, Swan Quarter, Elizabeth City & Edenton, and Newport News, 23 pages; list of 21 Co. G members taken as prisoners of war at Drury's Bluff, 1 page; list of 1863 re-enlistments, 2 pages; muster rolls of 23rd Regiment commissioned and non-commissioned officers, 5 pages; officer promotions for the 23rd Regiment, 3 pages; 23rd Regiment officers killed (6) and wounded (5), 2 pages; miscellaneous other categories,19 pages; chronological list, with movement details and other notes of important regimental events, 20 September 1861 through "disastrous affair" at Drury's Bluff, 16 May 1864, 9 pages; lists of regimental color bearers and sutlers, 2 pages; regimental deaths, 2 pages; and a list of company expeditions, with companies involved and commanders, 2 pages. Very good manuscript record of a Massachusetts infantry company during the Civil War, operating primarily in small communities in eastern North Carolina. Embossed black leather boards (some rubbing at extremities), patterned endpapers. (10204). Item #63500

The 23rd Regiment Massachusetts Infantry mustered into service in Lynnfield, Massachusetts in late September 1961 and travelled to Annapolis, Maryland, where it camped for the balance of that year. As part of John G. Foster's brigade, it joined the expedition to North Carolina in early 1862, taking part in the battle of Roanoke Island on February 8 and New Bern on 14 March, remaining in New Bern for the occupation following that battle, with occasional forays in the vicinity, at Little Washington, Tarboro, and Kinston, White Hall, and Goldsboro, from September through December, until joining an early 1863 expedition to South Carolina. Returning to New Bern, the company aided in raising the siege of "Little Washington" in mid-April, 1863, marched through communities in Beaufort County, then Carteret County in June, Trenton, Cedar Point, and Winton in July, Swan Quarter in September, and Elizabeth City and Edenton in October. Following a transfer of the regiment to Virginia, Co. G participated in a number of actions through Drury's Bluff on 16 May 1864 where it saw 21 members captured. The regiment returned to New Bern in September where it participated in several more small actions, finally mustering out of service in July, 1865.

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