9th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
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9th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at South Framingham May 9 to 12, 1898, with 47 officers and 896 enlisted men.
- Assignments:
- Assigned to Independent Brigade, Fifth Army Corps, July, 1
- Movements:
- Left South Framingham May 31; arrived at Camp Alger, Va., June 1
- Left Camp Alger June 24; arrived at Newport News, Va., June 26
- Sailed from Newport News on steamship "Harvard" June 26; arrived at Siboney, Cuba, July 1
- Participated in battle of San Juan Hill and in the Santiago campaign
- Sailed from Santiago, Cuba, August 26, on steamship "Roumania"; arrived at Montauk Point, New York, September 4
- Left Montauk Point September 5; arrived at South Framingham, Mass., September 6
- Furloughed for sixty days September 7
Mustered out of the service of the United States at Boston, Mass., November 26, 1898, with 46 officers and 1,151 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-died of disease, 4. Enlisted men-wounded, 3; died of disease, 110; killed by accident, 1; deserted, 1.
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