3rd Battalion Massachusetts Rifles

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title: 3rd Battalion Massachusetts Rifles
text: The 3rd Battalion Massachusetts Rifles was an infantry unit created at the start of the American Civil War and activated for federal service in the Union army for a term of ninety days. It consisted of three companies of prewar militia and one newly recruited company together organized under the command of Major Charles Devens. The term "rifles" was a designation frequently given to antebellum militia companies which trained in the use of rifled muskets—a relatively new innovation at the time—as
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date modified: 2022-12-21T03:35:00Z
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