Thursday, November 15, 2012

Progress of Sumner's Division

Saturday, November 15, 1862

General Edwin "Bull" Sumner's Right Grand Division began their march to Falmouth shortly after dawn this morning. The Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment was one of the lead regiments in the march. Advancing several miles they made evening camp at Warrenton Junction.1

References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 181, 183.

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