Twelve Months with the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry in the Service of the United States

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Harry Endicott Webber. Twelve Months with the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry in the Service of the United States

Twelve Months with the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry in the Service of the United States

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Footnote

The Call to Arms

Muster In

Chickamauga

Sickness at Chickamauga

Lexington

Americus

Matanzas

Muster Out

Welcome Home

The Roll of Honor

Some Statistics

Field and Staff

Non-Commissioned Staff

The Band

Company A, Newburyport

Company B, Amesbury

Company C, Marblehead

Company D, Lynn

Company E, Beverly

Company F, Haverhill

Company G, Gloucester

Company H, Salem

Company I, Lynn

Company K, Danvers

Company L, Lawrence

Company M, Somerville

Chronology

Appendix

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Harry Endicott Webber

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Before leaving this subject, and at the risk of exhausting your patience, I can not refrain from giving you a word of warning. Of all the diseases which infest sedentary camps, such as those established in the United States and Cuba during the recent war, none is more insidious or deadly in its effects than typhoid fever.

It would be very unusual indeed for a regiment of the National Guard or of Volunteers to assemble in camp at any time without bringing with it at least one case of undeveloped typhoid fever. Now, a week may elapse before such a case is discovered and reported, and in the meantime the man who has it may have given it to a dozen other men through fecal and urinary discharges, and through carelessness in using the sink in washing his hands and bathing, and in keeping his clothing absolutely free from that kind of pollution. Hence the importance of personal cleanliness and the strictest enforcement of all the sanitary rules which may be established.

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