On the Road to Fredericksburg

Wednesday, December 3, 1862

As they continued their southward march the Twenty-Seventh Connecticut arrived at Mitchell's Plantation, near Port Tobacco, where the camped for the evening. Some of the men foraged for chickens, pigs, and other food from local farms.¹

References:
¹Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 18.