6th Massachusetts Regiment (Spanish American War)

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In early 1898, 6th Massachusetts was reconstituted as a unit of Volunteers to fight in the Spanish-American War, under the command of a certain Captain of Regulars Rice, who was commissioned a Colonel of Volunteers. The unit should not to be confused with the 6th Infantry Regiment of Regulars, which also fought in the war, though in the Philippines and Cuba. 6th Massachusetts deployed to Puerto Rico and landed at Guanica and worked its way east and inland to Ponce and Arecibo. In October of that year, 6th Massachusetts returned to Massachusetts and was disbanded. The 6th Massachusetts' experience in the Spanish-American War was recorded by Lance-Corporal George King of the regiment's Concord Company in his letters home, which he later published in 1929.

[edit] References

• King, George G. Letters of a Volunteer in the Spanish-American War. Chicago: Hawkins & Loomis, 1929.

[edit] External links

Library of Congress American Memory: Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age