The Second Mass and Its Fighting CaliforniansA Reference site of images, articles, artifacts of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry including the Cal 100 and the Cal Battalion.
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Articles and References
2nd Mass Flag PageRegimental DemographicsRegimental InsigniaValorus Dearborn's DiaryLt. Charles Roberts DiaryThe Journal and Colt of George BuhrerCaptured by Mosby's Men (Dranesville/Anker's Shop)Leesburg Skirmish: from two perspectivesYankee Davis: Colonel Lowell's Scout2nd Mass' Medals of HonorLetter from Philip Baybutt (MOH winner)Reception of the California CompanyMosby Baptizes the Californians (Mt. Zions Church)John Cain's Andersonville TestimonyLt. Parker comments on MosbyPatriot Preacher: Thomas Starr KingPvt. McCarthy's One Page HistoryAKA Charles HillCorporal Hanscom's Letters HomeExecution of a TraitorA Mutineer's BulletCharlie Binns, Union Man and ScoutPringle Letters, the capture and death of a trooperSgt. Wakefield and the Little White ChurchPersonal Recollections of George TowleThe Golden AgeWho Killed Captain Reed?Graves at ArcolaSurgeon Johnson's FateMemorials: A Photographic Album of our Veterans' Grave Sites"The Scout" a poem by by Herman Melville
California Sabers, The Second Massachusetts in the Civil War by James McLean. Available from Amazon.com and in bookstores. Bear Flag and Bay State: The Californians of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry by Tom Parsons Available October 17th 2001. Pre-order your copy now on Amazon.com. Their Horses Climbed Trees by Larry Rogers. Available October 2001 at www.schifferbooks.com/ Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, Captain Sixth United States Cavalry, Colonel Second Massachusetts Cavalry, Brigadier General United States Volunteers. Lowell, Charles Russell, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson. Boston: 1907. "The Sojourn of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry in Vienna."
by Harrison, Noel. Northern Virginia Heritage, 7 (June 1985), pp. 11-12.
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