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.