“U.S. INFANTRY AND RIFLE TACTICS” IDENTIFIED TO 5TH MASS. INFANTRY SERGEANT

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Green cloth-covered book measures 3.5” x 5.25” with over 450 pages. Gilt imprint on spine. Complete title is “U.S. Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction, Exercise, and Maneuvers of the United States Infantry, Including Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen.” Published in 1863 by J.B. Lippincott of Philadelphia.

Fold-out page opposite title page remains but has separation. Period ink identification on front page, repeated three times: George H. Little, S. Danvers, Mass. Stenciled on last page is “GEO. H. LITTLE. / Co. C. Mass. 5th Regt” in heavy brown ink with “Fort McHenry / Baltimore / Md” hand written in ink underneath.

Cover and majority of pages remain in very good condition, with some water staining and wrinkling on last few pages in back.

George H. Little from South Danvers, MA, was a 21-year-old Farmer when he enlisted on 8/16/1862 as a Sergeant in Company “C” of the 5th Massachusetts Infantry, a nine-month unit. He was Mustered Out on 7/2/1863 at Camp Lander, Wenham, MA. Three weeks later the regiment was reformed again as a “100-day emergency” regiment, and George enlisted again. That time the regiment Mustered Out on 11/16/1864 at Readville, MA. He was a member of GAR Post # 26 (Thomas G Stevenson) in Roxbury, MA.

The 5th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia was a peacetime infantry regiment that was activated for federal service in the Union army for three separate tours during the Civil War. The regiment first served a 90-day term of service from April to July 1861. Near the end of this first enlistment, they were heavily engaged in the First Battle of Bull Run. Their second term of service lasted nine months from September 1862 to July 1863 during which they were stationed in New Bern, North Carolina. Their third enlistment in response to the emergency call for troops to defend Washington, D.C. lasted 100 days from July to November 1864 during which they were stationed in various fortifications around Baltimore, Maryland, primarily in Fort McHenry.

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