Sunday, May 12, 2024

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, November 12, 1862

Gen. Porter left his command to-day, and Gen. Hooker took his place. He reviewed his corps before leaving, and we fired a salute of thirteen guns in his honor.

SOURCE: John Lord Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 269

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