Friday, June 21, 2013

Arrival at Thoroughfare Gap

Sunday, June 21, 1863

On Friday the Twentieth Massachusetts departed from Sanger's Station, passing Centerville yesterday and the Manassas (Bull Run) battlefield this morning. By evening the regiment arrived at Thoroughfare Gap for evening camp and four days rest. 1

References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 263.

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