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

Preface

Introduction

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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To the officers and men of the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry, U. S. V.:—

I have been requested by the author, Mr. Harry E. Webber, to write some account of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, while under my command during the Spanish-American war.

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Within a short time after our arrival in Lexington the number of sick increased so rapidly that the division hospital was filled to overflowing. But in the course of five or six weeks, and as a consequence of our strenuous efforts, the number began to diminish, until finally, and before the Division moved to Georgia in November, not a single case remained in the Division outside of the hospitals, and no new cases were ever reported to me while the Division remained in service.

Of the part taken by the Eighth Massachusetts in this heroic struggle, a great deal might be written by way of commendation. It is probably sufficient to say that Colonel Pew and his officers appeared to realize fully the gravity of the situation, and relying on the good discipline and high order of intelligence of the rank and file, had but little difficulty in carrying out the sanitary regulations of the camp, thus preserving the lives of many of the men.

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