Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Massachusetts Infantry, 12th Regiment Records,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1861-1864
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 47
Extent:
.6 linear feet
(1 document box and 1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur and Del Sur Oversize
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Massachusetts Infantry, 12th Regiment Records. Wyles Mss 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains Civil War individual service and medical records, lists of circulars, regimental and regular orders
received, order books - one with a short history, and photographs for the Massachusetts Infantry, 12th Regiment (Vol.), ca
1861-1864.
For further information about role of Massachusetts and its troops in the Civil War, see works such as:
Bowen, James Lorenzo.
Massachusetts in the War, 1861-1865 (1889).
Headley, P. C.
Massachusetts in the Rebellion: A Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth, and the Services of the Leading Statesmen,
the Military, the Colleges, and the People, in the Civil War of 1861-65
(1866).
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-65 (1895-1896).
Massachusetts. Adjutant General's Office.
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 vols. (1931-1935).
Massachusetts. Adjutant General's Office.
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War: Index to Army Records (1937).
Massachusetts. Adjutant General's Office.
Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865, 2 vols. (1868-1870).
Massachusetts in the Civil War, 5 vols. (1960-1965).
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts.
Civil War and Miscellaneous Papers (1918).