Monday, March 31, 1862
Upon arriving at their destination, the regiment disembarked from the Catskill at Fort Monroe in Hampton. They marched a mile to Big Bethel and bivouacked for the night. At Big Bethel the regiment observed the Monitor, the Union Ironclad ship, in the harbor.1
References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 80.
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
On Route to the Peninsula
Friday, March 28, 1862
On Monday the regiment marched two miles from Harper's Ferry to Sandy Hook, boarding baggage cars bound for Washington, D.C. After arriving on Tuesday, they organized the men and prepared to depart by steamer for Fort Monroe on the Peninsula. On Friday the regiment boarded the steamer Catskill, departing from Washington. They sailed down the Potomac River into Chesapeake Bay for a three-day voyage to the Peninsula.1
References:
1Richard F. Miller, Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2005), 109-110.
On Monday the regiment marched two miles from Harper's Ferry to Sandy Hook, boarding baggage cars bound for Washington, D.C. After arriving on Tuesday, they organized the men and prepared to depart by steamer for Fort Monroe on the Peninsula. On Friday the regiment boarded the steamer Catskill, departing from Washington. They sailed down the Potomac River into Chesapeake Bay for a three-day voyage to the Peninsula.1
References:
1Richard F. Miller, Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2005), 109-110.
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