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Steve Lempitski · 12-04-2001, 02:04 PM

You sure? My 1863 cavalry sabre has C. Roby, West Chelmsford MA, on it as well as a serial #, and a "M" stamp for the State of Massachusetts issue to a State Unit. As Col. Shaws 54th was a Mass State unit, all their equipment was bought and paid for, (and property of), the State of Massachusetts; which supplied more men to the Union Army than any other state. Every small town up here has a memorial in the town square to those who did not return. My home town of Holliston has a gravestone of a family with all three sons - one killed at Antietam, another at Gettysburg, and the third died a prisoner in Bell Island.

12-04-2001, 02:04 PM	#11
Steve Lempitski User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Old Cape Cod Posts: 238 Thanks: 1 Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts	Re: "Glory" was good You sure? My 1863 cavalry sabre has C. Roby, West Chelmsford MA, on it as well as a serial #, and a "M" stamp for the State of Massachusetts issue to a State Unit. As Col. Shaws 54th was a Mass State unit, all their equipment was bought and paid for, (and property of), the State of Massachusetts; which supplied more men to the Union Army than any other state. Every small town up here has a memorial in the town square to those who did not return. My home town of Holliston has a gravestone of a family with all three sons - one killed at Antietam, another at Gettysburg, and the third died a prisoner in Bell Island.