Thursday, July 4, 2013

Picket Duty at Littlepage's Bridge

Saturday, July 4, 1863

The Thirteenth New Hampshire Regiment began their march at 9:00 A.M. Around noon they halted for bivouac and picket duty near Littlepage's Bridge over the Pamunkey River, as artillery fire revealed the proximity of the Confederate forces.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), 175-76.

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