Sunday, July 5, 1863
After burning Littlepage's Bridge the Thirteenth New Hampshire Regiment began the return march to Camp Bowers. They endured a hard day's march from Littlepage's Bridge to Ayletts on the Mattapony River, traversing past their camp locations at Taylor's Plantation and White House.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), 176-78.
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