Friday, February 22, 2013

Snowstorm

Sunday, February 22, 1863

The heaviest snowstorm of the winter hit the camp of the Twenty-Seventh Connecticut in Falmouth today as the holiday observation of George Washington’s birthday was celebrated near his childhood home. Several inches of snow blanketed the region by nightfall.1

References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 41.