Near the Enemy Line at Yorktown

Saturday, April 5, 1862

The regiment left their camp near Big Bethel and marched to Howard's Bridge. After turning off the main road, the regiment heard musket fire as they passed near a Confederate camp which had recently been vacated. The regiment moved into a clearing where they made their camp, nearly four miles from Big Bethel and five miles from Yorktown. The Confederates were camped in a large semicircle nearly a mile from the Union line in the vicinity of Wynn's Mill works.¹

References:
¹George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 81.