Front matter
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The First Regiment
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
"Vigilantia"
iiBy 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
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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
viCopyright, 1899,
By James A. Frye.
PRESS OF
Rockwell and Churchill
BOSTON, U.S.A.
viiTO
My Father
WHO ADVISED ME NOT TO ENTER THE SERVICE
AND WOULD HAVE DISINHERITED
ME HAD I HEEDED HIS
ADVICE
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