Sunday, February 22, 1863
The heaviest snowstorm of the winter hit the camp of the Twenty-Seventh Connecticut in Falmouth today as the holiday observation of George Washington’s birthday was celebrated near his childhood home. Several inches of snow blanketed the region by nightfall.1
References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 41.
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