1st Massachusetts Sharpshooter Company

The 1st Massachusetts Sharpshooter Company lost 3 officers and 21 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 15 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg

Monument to the 1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters at Gettysburg

1861
September	Organized at Lynn field and mustered in
	Left State for Washington, D.C., Attached to the 15th Massachusetts Infantry; see that regiment for detailed record.
1862
September 17	Battle of Antietam Captain John Saunders was killed during the ambush of Sedgwick's Division in the West Woods
1864
July	Attached to 19th Massachusetts Infantry
September 6	Mustered out