28th Regiment - Massachusetts Infantry

Massachusetts Volunteer  Infantry

IRISH

by  Michael  Gnatek - (1935-2006)

4th Regiment of the Irish Brigade

 Issued 1995 28th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry A Civil War Print by Michael Gnatek Fourth Regiment of the Irish Brigade The 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was called into active service on September 24, 1861. The regiment was recruited out of Camp Cameron in Cambridge, Mass. and was mustered into Federal Service on December 13, 1861. Due to the large number of men recruited of Irish birth or decent, the regiment's official designation was the Second Irish Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. Unofficially, it was known as the faugh-a-ballagh regiment. This was a Gaelic war cry meaning "clear the way." Novenber 23, 1862, the 28th Massachusetts became the "Fourth Regiment" of General Thomas F. Meagher's Irish Brigade. During its service for the Unoin, the 28th Massachusetts was involved actively in every major campaign in the Eastern Theater following the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. Of all of the Union regiments serving with the army of Potomac, the 28th ranked seventh in the total number

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