Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 13th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an in the army during the . It was formed on July 16, 1861 at in . Its original commander was Samuel H. Leonard. Boston was founded on September 17, 1630, by colonists from England. The Puritans of the are sometimes confused with the , who founded ten years earlier in what is today.The other eight slave states rejected calls for secession at this point. No country in the world recognized the Confederacy.3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, to December 1864.