MASSACHUSETTS MINUTE MAN MEDAL IDENTIFIED TO GEORGE H. LARNED, 3RD MASSACHUSETTS RIFLES BATTALION & 51ST MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY

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Two-piece bronze medal consisting of a rectangular bar and circular drop.

The bar is embossed with “MASSACHUSETTS MINUTE MEN OF 1861”. Reverse has the original pin.

Circular drop has the Seal of the State of Massachusetts at center of the obverse while the reverse reads “THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER MILITIA WHO WERE MUSTERED INTO THE UNITED STATES SERVICE IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S FIRST CALL FOR TROOPS APRIL 15, 1861.”

Rim is stamped “GEORGE H. LARNED, PRVT. B. 3d. BTN. RFN.”.

George H. Larned was a 23 year old clerk residing in Worcester, MA when he enlisted on 4/19/61 as a Private. On 5/19/61 he mustered into Co. B., 3rd Mass. Rifles. Mustered out on 8/3/61 at Worcester. He enlisted on 9/30/62 and was mustered into Co. B, 51st Massachusetts Infantry. Mustered out on 7/27/63 at Worcester. Larned died in in 1873 and is buried in Hope Cemetery in Worcester.

3rd Mass Rifles was

Organized at Worcester

April 20                Moved to New York

April 21-24          To Annapolis, Md. and duty there

May 2                  Moved to Baltimore, Md. and garrison duty at Fort McHenry

Company D organized at Boston

May 2                  Company D ordered to Washington, D.C., via Fortress Monroe and the Potomac River, then moved to Baltimore and joined Battalion at Fort McHenry

August 3              Mustered out.

 

The Fifty-first Regiment was organized at Worcester September 25 to October 30, 1862. The regiment was assigned to Major General John G. Foster's Department of North Carolina, later designated as the XVIII Corps. While based in New Bern, North Carolina, the 51st Massachusetts took part in several expeditions involving numerous units from Foster's command and were engaged in the Battle of Kinston, the Battle of White Hall and the Battle of Goldsboro Bridge, among other engagements.  In 1863, it

Moved to Fort Monroe, Virginia, thence to White House June 24–28.

Moved to Baltimore, Maryland, June 29-July 1.

Moved to Monocacy Junction, Frederick and Sandy Hook July 6–7.

Occupation of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, July 8.

March to Funkstown, Maryland, July 12–13, and join 1st Army Corps. Pursuit of Lee.

March to Berlin July 15–17.

Moved to Worcester, July 17–21.

Mustered out July 27, 1863

Records show that no members of the 51st were killed in battle, but 44 enlisted men died of disease in the nine months service.

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