The First regiment Massachusetts heavy artillery, United States volunteers, in the Spanish-American war of 1898

by James A. Frye

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The First Regiment

Massachusetts Heavy Artillery

"Vigilantia"

By the Same Author

FROM HEADQUARTERS

Being Seven Odd Tales picked up during Service

in a Militia Regiment in Time of Peace.

FABLES OF FIELD AND STAFF

Being Seven Other Odd Tales concerning Certain

Happenings in the Same Regiment.

Each volume, cloth, 12mo, mailed, postpaid, on

receipt of price, $1.00, by

THE COLONIAL COMPANY

(P.O. Box 1612)

Boston

Copyrighted photograph by T. E. Marr, Boston.
COLONEL CHARLES PFAFF, U.S.V.
Commanding Regiment.

THE
FIRST REGIMENT
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS
IN THE
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR OF 1898

BY

COLONEL JAMES A. FRYE, A.I.G., MASS.

(LATE MAJOR OF THE REGIMENT)

Member Massachusetts Military Historical Society; Associate Member

United States Military Service Institution; Associate Member

United States Naval Institute; Late Secretary National

Defence Association

WITH REGIMENTAL ROSTER AND MUSTER-ROLLS

AND

FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON

THE COLONIAL COMPANY

1899

Copyright, 1899,

By James A. Frye.

PRESS OF

Rockwell and Churchill

BOSTON, U.S.A.

TO

My Father

WHO ADVISED ME NOT TO ENTER THE SERVICE

AND WOULD HAVE DISINHERITED

ME HAD I HEEDED HIS

ADVICE