Building Fortifications at Camp Lincoln

Monday, June 23, 1862

During their time at Camp Lincoln the men of the Twentieth Massachusetts engaged in a variety of activities, including construction. Today a detail from the Twentieth assisted in the building of artillery fortifications for a battery of sixty-four pound howitzers.¹

References:
¹George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 104.