Saturday, November 1, 1862
At noon the Thirteenth receives orders to strike camp and prepare to march. At 1:00 PM the Thirteenth begins a march of five miles to Fairfax Seminary, making camp on a hill a mile beyond the Seminary. The new camp is named Camp Casey for their commanding officer, General Silas Casey.1
References:
1S. Millett Thompson, Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 : A Diary Covering Three Years and a Day (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888), 20.
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