President Lincoln Presides at Grand Review of Union Army

Wednesday, April 8, 1863

General Abraham Lincoln visited the Union camp at Falmouth and presided over a grand review of the Army of the Potomac, marking the opening of the Spring Campaign of 1863. Fifty to sixty-thousand men participated in the review, and many observed that the Union Army had never looked better.¹

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

Burnside Replaced with Hooker

Thursday, January 29, 1863

By general order of President Abraham Lincoln General Ambrose Burnside was removed from command of the Army of the Potomac and replaced with General Joseph Hooker.¹

References:
¹Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 39.