Saturday, June 14, 2014

River Journey to Bermuda Hundred

Tuesday, June 14, 1864

After embarking on the steamer "Ocean Wave" from White House Landing the previous day the Thirteenth New Hampshire journeyed along the Pamunkey and York River, reaching Newport News by evening. This morning the Thirteenth departed from Newport News at 4:00 A.M. and debarked at camp at Bermuda Hundred around 10:00 P.M.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), 379-81.

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