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on the next day, with the right of the brigade on the harbor on the north side of the city. At the last position, the regiment dug trenches until they were completed on the morning of 14 July, within a few hundred yards of the
Spanish lines. It was ordered into the trenches and prepared for action at 11:20 am that day, but the city surrendered shortly afterwards. When the formal surrender took place three days later, the regiment paraded in front of its trenches.
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552:, whose smoke revealed their positions to Spanish troops. Clark later wrote that no unit had ever gone into combat under worse conditions, as 55% of his men were untrained recruits. The 2nd Massachusetts was ordered to halt its advance and instead hold its positions by Ludlow due to the inferiority of its armament. The regiment lost one officer killed and three wounded, and four enlisted men killed in action, three died of wounds, and 33 wounded.
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521:, but arrived as the engagement was ending; the 2nd Massachusetts was left behind to guard Siboney. In the late afternoon the advance was resumed, halting on the Las Guasimas battlefield at dark. Company G, which had remained at Siboney in order to unload supplies from the ships, reached the bivouac early the next morning, allowing the advance to be resumed.
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The regiment remained in these positions until 10 July, when it relieved Cuban auxiliaries in trenches further to the right. That afternoon, United States artillery opened fire as a temporary truce expired. The regiment was moved to the right again on 11 July and finished the encirclement of the city
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The regiment remained in the positions for the next several weeks, a period in which disease struck the men, incapacitating as many as 65%. The regiment was subsequently transferred to the Third
Brigade of the corps' Second Division, and left Santiago for the United States on 12 August aboard the
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before 6:00 pm, and bivouacked by the roadside at 9:00 pm. They resumed the march at 3:00 am, and the regiment reached the road at El Pozo mill under heavy fire from
Spanish snipers, holding positions on a hill at the extreme right flank of the line. A Spanish attack was repulsed around 10:00 pm,
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on the afternoon 3 July, and advanced to the right, taking positions on a hill dominating the rear of the city in order to completely encircle it on 4 July. There, the regiment began digging breastworks, using knives, spoons, and mess plates and cups due to a shortage of entrenching tools.
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November.
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505:, Cuba on 20 June, before the regiment began landing there on 22 June, with Company E being the first ashore. The landings were part of the Santiago Campaign, an attempt by the Fifth Army Corps to capture the city of
536:, was among three state volunteer regiments to fight in combat during the Santiago Campaign and the only one to fight at El Caney. During the engagement, the brigade, commanded by Brigadier General
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Company F, Second Regt. Massachusetts Infantry, U.S.V., First Brigade, Second Division, Fifth Army Corps, Of Gardner in the War With Spain, With Historical Data
620:, where it was furloughed for sixty days. At the conclusion of this period the 44 officers and 797 enlisted men of the regiment were mustered out of Federal service at
517:, a village on the road to Santiago, just before noon. On 24 June Clark brought the 8th and 22nd Infantry to reinforce dismounted United States cavalry engaged in the
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Armories of Massachusetts: A Historical Narration of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, with Portraits and Biographies of Officers Past and Present
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Armories of Massachusetts: A Historical Narration of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, with Portraits and Biographies of Officers Past and Present
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Regiments and
Armories of Massachusetts: A Historical Narration of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, with Portraits and Biographies of Officers Past and Present
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Company Commanders of Existing Organizations of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia". In Hall, Charles W. (ed.).
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General's Office (1902). "A Brief History of the Volunteer Organizations in the service of the United States during the War with Spain, 1898".
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although the regiment lost four enlisted men wounded, one mortally. The regiment received the news of the naval victory at the
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by rail on 18 May. At Lakeland it was temporarily assigned to the Second Cavalry Brigade of the
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1034:. Gardner, Massachusetts: Gardner Press. 1906.
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937:. Boston: W.W. Potter. pp. 723–758.
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