Monday, April 29, 2013

Advancing toward Chancellorsville

Wednesday, April 29, 1863

After two weeks of heavy rain the weather cleared on Monday. After receiving orders to march on Tuesday evening the Twenty-Seventh broke camp at Falmouth this morning and began a march toward the river crossing at United States Ford.1

References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 43-44.

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