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.