On the Long Northward March

Sunday, June 14, 1863

The Twenty-Seventh Connecticut received final orders to march, and at 3:00 P.M departed from Falmout. They marched in advance of the rest of the brigade to Stafford Court House, which they left behind in flames before proceeding to Occoquan.¹

References:
¹Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 72.