12TH MASSACHUSETTS


DIVISION: FOURTH

BRIGADE: 3RD MA

HISTORY: ORGANIZED SPRING 1775 IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

ENTERED VALLEY FORGE DEC 1777 WITH 369 ASSIGNED AND 239 FIT FOR DUTY, LEFT VALLEY FORGE WITH 330 ASSIGNED AND 183 FIT FOR DUTY. 

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS: SIEGE OF BOSTON, LAKE CHAMPLAIN, SARATOGA, DEFENSE OF PHILADELPHIA, AND PHILADELPHIA-MONMOUTH

Staff Officers
Colonel SAMUEL BREWER
Lt. Colonel SAMUEL CARLTON
Major TOBIAS FERNALD
Company Officers
Captain NATHAN WATKINS
Captain ELISHA BREWER
Captain DANIEL MERRILL
Captain SILAS BURBANK
Captain JAMES DONNELL
Captain JOHN CHADWICK
Captain JOSEPH JENKINS
Captain ENOS STONE
Staff Officers

CHAPLAIN

 
QUARTERMASTER INGRAM WHETING
ADJUTANT  WILLIAM BATEMAN
PAYMASTER ELIJAH WARREN
SURGEON  PALETIAH WARREN
SURGEON MATE   JOSIAH WATERBUSE / JOSEPH GARDNER
QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT  DARIUS HOWE
SERGEANT MAJOR JOHN GIBSON
DRUM MAJOR JOHN WHITNEY
FIFE MAJOR  WILLIAM COOMER