Thursday, January 17, 2013

Dress Parade and Orders to March

Saturday, January 17, 1863

On Friday the Twenty-Seventh Connecticut participated in a regimental dress parade and received orders to march this morning with three day rations. They arose early this morning and awaited orders to prepare for march, but the orders did not come.1

References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 37.

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