Sunday, July 22, 2012

Sumner's Grand Dress Parade

Tuesday, July 22, 1862

General Edwin "Bull" Sumner held a grand dress parade and review of the Union Army Second Corps, of which the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment was a part, at Harrison's Landing.1

References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 139.

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