Tuesday, March 5, 2013

General Hooker Reviews the Second Corps

Thursday, March 5, 1863

General Joseph Hooker reviewed the Second Corps of the Union Army at Falmouth. General Darius Couch, commander of the Second Corps, accompanied General Hooker during the review. Fifteen-thousand men lined up on the plain near General Winfield S. Hancock’s headquarters and marched in column by company.1

References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 41.

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