Farewell to Camp Tuttle

Monday, December 1, 1862

At 9:00 A.M. the Twenty-Seventh Connecticut filed into line and marched across Chain Bridge through Washington D.C. and southward along the Potomac River. They made fifteen miles before making camp for the evening. Rumors circulated among the men that their destination was Fredericksburg. ¹

References:
¹Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 17.

First Sunday at Camp Tuttle

Sunday, November 2, 1862

The first Sunday in camp gave the men of the Twenty-Seventh a break from the daily regimen of drills. On this Sunday, however, a report spread through the camp that Confederates were spotted near Leesburg, and the camp went on alert for a call to arms during the day and into the night. The day and night passed uneventfully, and the call to arms did not occur.¹

References:
¹Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 14.

Camp Tuttle

Monday, October 27, 1862

At noon the men of the Twenty-Seventh marched into Georgetown by the Aqueduct Bridge and continued along the course of the Left Bank of the Potomac River near Chain Bridge, where they formed a new camp, Camp Tuttle. Settling into camp the men began a regimen of drills as preparation for combat.¹

References:
¹Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 13.