Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Burnside Replaced with Hooker

Thursday, January 29, 1863

By general order of President Abraham Lincoln General Ambrose Burnside was removed from command of the Army of the Potomac and replaced with General Joseph Hooker.1

References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 39.

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