Friday, June 28, 2013

Meade Replaces Hooker as Commander of the Army of the Potomac

Sunday, June 28, 1863

The Thirteenth New Hampshire regiment took part in inspection, dress parade, and religious services at their camp at White House Landing. They received the news that General George Meade replaced General Joseph Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac.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), 172.

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