Sunday, December 9, 2012

Arrival at Falmouth

Tuesday, December 9, 1862

The Twenty-Seventh Connecticut arrived at Falmouth at noon and immediately reported to the headquarters of General Darius Couch, commander of the Second Corps. The Twenty-Seventh Connecticut officially joined the Army of the Potomac, assigned to General Samuel Zook's Third Brigade of General Winfield S. Hancock's First Division of the Second Corps of General Edwin "Bull" Sumner's Right Grand Division.1

References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 20.

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