Massachusetts Infantry were recruited. It was the intention (and great efforts were made by the gentlemen interested in its formation) to make this an exclusively Essex County regiment, but the exigencies of the war made it imperative that all regiments in process of formation should be immediately sent to the front, and for this reason several partially formed regiments were consolidated, and sent forward.
The regiments sent from Massachusetts under this call were designated as follows:—
3d, Col. Silas Richmond; 4th, Col. Henry Walker; 5th, Col. George H. Pierson; 6th, Col. Albert Follansbee; 8th, Col. Frederick J. Coffin; 42d, Col. Isaac S. Burrill; 43d, Col. Charles S. Holbrook; 44th, Col. Francis L. Lee; 45th, Col. Charles R. Codman; 46th, Col. George Bowler; 47th, Col. Lucius B. Marsh; 48th, Col. Eben F. Stone; 49th, Col. William F. Bartlett; 50th, Col. Carlos P. Messer; 51st, Col. Augustus B. R. Sprague; 52d, Col. Halbert S. Greenleaf; 53d, Col. John W. Kimball, and the 11th Battery, Capt. Edward J. Jones, which was the only battery of nine months' men raised in the Commonwealth.
Of these regiments, the 3d, 5th, 6th, 8th, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, and 51st, served their time on the Eastern coast; the 4th, 42d, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 52d, and 53d served in the Army of the Gulf, on the Mississippi River; the 11th Battery served in the Army of the Potomac.
During the month of September, 1862, the men being recruited for the Essex County regiment began to rendezvous in "Camp Lander," Wenham, Mass., and the Hon. Eben F. Stone, a prominent lawyer of Newburyport, was appointed "Commandant of Camp."
