The 5th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia was a peacetime infantry regiment that was activated for federal service in the Union army for three separate tours during the American Civil War. In t
The 5th Massachusetts charges up a hill in Washington D.C. during training, May 1861. The U.S. Capitol is shown in the background.
Colonel Samuel C. Lawrence, commanding officer of the 5th Massachusetts Militia in 1861
The 5th Massachusetts at Camp Peirson, New Bern, North Carolina, 1863
Colonel George H. Peirson commanded the 5th Massachusetts during its second and third terms of service.
William B. Franklin
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William Buel Franklin was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of a corps commander in the Army of the Potomac, fighting in sever
Major General William B. Franklin
William B. Franklin in 1861, by Alfred Waud