Under the terms on which the mustering of the regiment had been ordered by the War Department, it entered the service with forty-eight commissioned officers and seven hundred and three enlisted men, an aggregate for duty of seven hundred and fifty-one. In its _personnel_ the command was exceptionally fortunate. Of its officers, twenty-five per cent. were college bred, while in its ranks were to be found representatives of nearly every college and technical school in New England. In machinists, electricians, and skilled mechanics—the sort of material without which an artillery command never can attain its full efficiency—the regiment was encouragingly strong. A newspaper sketch of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, recently published, gives a roll of twenty-one Harvard men who served in that command, and accompanies it with this comment: "Harvard University contributed her quota to the army last summer, and the Sixth had as many of her sons in the ranks as any regiment in the service." It is perhaps worth noting, though it hardly need be a matter for controversy, that no less than thirty-four graduates and undergraduates of the Cambridge University went out with the First, of whom nine were commissioned officers, while the remainder served faithfully and with credit as enlisted men. It is a matter for regret that statistics relating to men from other colleges who served in the regiment are not available, but it may be of interest to record here the Harvard roll, which may be considered approximately complete: Commissioned officers: James A. Frye (1886), major; John Bordman, Jr. (1894), captain; John B. Paine (1891), first lieutenant and range officer; E. Dwight Fullerton (1898), first lieutenant; William A. Rolfe (M.S., 1890), first lieutenant and assistant surgeon; William S. Bryant (1884), first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, later promoted major and brigade surgeon, and assigned to Seventh Corps; Albert A. Gleason (1886), second lieutenant; Sumner Paine (1890), second lieutenant; Joseph S. Francis (1897), second lieutenant.