Chapter I: Front Matter

The First Regiment
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery

"Vigilantia"

By the Same Author

FROM HEADQUARTERS

Being Seven Odd Tales picked up during Service
in a Militia Regiment in Time of Peace.

FABLES OF FIELD AND STAFF

Being Seven Other Odd Tales concerning Certain
Happenings in the Same Regiment.

Each volume, cloth, 12mo, mailed, postpaid, on
receipt of price, $1.00, by

THE COLONIAL COMPANY
(P.O. Box 1612)
Boston

Copyrighted photograph by T. E. Marr, Boston.

COLONEL CHARLES PFAFF, U.S.V.

Commanding Regiment.
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THE
FIRST REGIMENT
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS
IN THE
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR OF 1898

BY

COLONEL JAMES A. FRYE, A.I.G., MASS.

(LATE MAJOR OF THE REGIMENT)

Member Massachusetts Military Historical Society; Associate Member
United States Military Service Institution; Associate Member
United States Naval Institute; Late Secretary National
Defence Association

WITH REGIMENTAL ROSTER AND MUSTER-ROLLS

AND

FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON
THE COLONIAL COMPANY
1899

Copyright, 1899,

BY JAMES A. FRYE.

PRESS OF

Rockwell and Churchill

BOSTON, U.S.A.

TO

My Father

WHO ADVISED ME NOT TO ENTER THE SERVICE
AND WOULD HAVE DISINHERITED
ME HAD I HEEDED HIS
ADVICE

CONTENTS

PAGE
I. INTRODUCTORY 3
II. THE COAST-DEFENCE PROBLEM IN MASSACHUSETTS 13
III. MARCHING-ORDERS 21
IV. OFF FOR ACTIVE SERVICE 31
V. THE REGIMENT AT FORT WARREN 47
VI. A PERIOD OF SUSPENSE 59
VII. FROM "M.V.M." TO "U.S.V." 71
VIII. PERSONNEL OF THE REGIMENT 87
IX. THE SEASON OF RUMORS 99
X. ASSIGNMENT TO STATIONS 115
XI. FORT PICKERING AND THE "NORTH-SHORE" DEFENSES 129
XII. FORT RODMAN AND ITS GARRISON 151
XIII. THE THIRD BATTALION AT FORT WARREN 161
XIV. FINAL DAYS IN THE SERVICE 171
XV. AN HONORABLE REGIMENTAL RECORD 187
ROSTER AND MUSTER-ROLLS 198
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 253

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
COLONEL CHARLES PFAFF _Frontispiece_
RESPONDING TO THE CALL, 26 APRIL, 1898 33
BARBETTE BATTERY, 15-INCH RODMANS 49
FIELD AND MACHINE GUN BATTERY 63
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CARLE A. WOODRUFF 79
THE FIELD, STAFF, AND LINE 91
CHANNEL BATTERY, 8-INCH RIFLES 103
GARRISON ENCAMPMENT, FORT PICKERING 119
MAJOR PERLIE A. DYAR 131
MAJOR-SURGEON HOWARD S. DEARING 135
MAJOR GEORGE F. QUINBY 141
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES B. WOODMAN 153
MAJOR JAMES A. FRYE 163
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ERASMUS M. WEAVER 177
THE LAST EVENING PARADE, 3 OCTOBER, 1898 189