Sunday, November 2, 1862
At 8:00 A.M. the Twentieth departed from Wood Grove and began a thirteen-mile march to Bloomfield, near Snicker's Gap, where they camped for the evening, enjoying summerlike weather.1
References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 180.
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Friday, November 2, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
March to Wood Grove
Saturday, November 1, 1862
At 11:00 A.M. the Twentieth struck camp at Hillsborough and began another eight mile march to Wood Grove, sixteen miles from Harper's Ferry and twelve miles from Leesburg.1
References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 179-80.
At 11:00 A.M. the Twentieth struck camp at Hillsborough and began another eight mile march to Wood Grove, sixteen miles from Harper's Ferry and twelve miles from Leesburg.1
References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 179-80.
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