50th REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ...

50th REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ASSOCIATION
RECORDS, 1880-1925
MM 19 Processed by: Halley Grogan
April 2012
Volume:
1 envelope
.10 linear feet
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This material was donated by the Daughters of Union Veterans, Barbara Frietchie
Tent No. 71, on July 9, 1952.
The material was placed in acid-free folders.
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be submitted
in writing to the Manuscript Librarian in the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex
Museum.
Processing of this collection was funded by a grant from the NHPRC (National
Historical Publications and Records Commission).
HISTORICAL SKETCH
At a meeting of Company A of the 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, held at
the Lafayette House in Salem, Massachusetts on May 27, 1880, a committee was appointed to form
a regimental association and to invite comrades to an annual reunion. After notifying officers of the
regiment of the idea for an association and reunion, it was decided by the committee that enough
interest warranted holding the first reunion of the regiment at Ocean House in Revere Beach, on
August 24, 1880. At the reunion, attended by 157 members of the regiment, a report was given by
the appointed members of the committee, recommending the formation of a regimental association.
The report and recommendation was accepted by the present members of the regiment, thus
establishing the 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association. The association
included an elected executive committee comprising of a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary,
and a treasurer. Additional committees were appointed for the purposes of arranging continued
regimental reunions and publishing a history of the regiment.
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MM 19 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association Records
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association Records includes a record
book and list of member signatures. The record book was created by the executive committee and
documents committee meetings, reports, and regimental reunions from 1880 to 1925. The list of
member signatures documents members of the 50th Regiment, who participated in the National
Defense Test Day on September 12, 1924 in Salem, Massachusetts at the Headquarters of the 102d
Field Artillery Massachusetts National Guard.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RELATED COLLECTIONS
Stevens, William Burnham, William C. Eustis, Solomon Nelson. History of the Fiftieth Regiment of
Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in the Late War of the Rebellion. Boston, MA:
Griffith-Stillings Press, 1907.
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Records, 1779-1914, MM 6
50th REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ASSOCIATION
RECORDS, 1880-1925
CONTENTS LIST
Box Folder Contents Date
1 Vol. 1 Record Book 1880-1925
1 National Defense Test Day 1924
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