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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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Arrival at Falmouth
Tuesday, December 9, 1862
The Twenty-Seventh Connecticut arrived at Falmouth at noon and immediately reported to the headquarters of General Darius Couch, commander of the Second Corps. The Twenty-Seventh Connecticut officially joined the Army of the Potomac, assigned to General Samuel Zook's Third Brigade of General Winfield S. Hancock's First Division of the Second Corps of General Edwin "Bull" Sumner's Right Grand Division.1
References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 20.
The Twenty-Seventh Connecticut arrived at Falmouth at noon and immediately reported to the headquarters of General Darius Couch, commander of the Second Corps. The Twenty-Seventh Connecticut officially joined the Army of the Potomac, assigned to General Samuel Zook's Third Brigade of General Winfield S. Hancock's First Division of the Second Corps of General Edwin "Bull" Sumner's Right Grand Division.1
References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 20.
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