. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . abandon the ravine. Then began one of the shortest andsharpest battery practices possible, resulting in the rebel gunsbeing disabled and destroyed. During the time that this wastranspiring the regiment was hugging the ground in the rearof the guns, while an enfilading fire from batteries on the leftwas sweeping the ground a few feet in their rear, throwingthe sand all over them. About this time a grand charge was made by the rebel JOHN McGINNIS,Killed at Cold Ha
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . abandon the ravine. Then began one of the shortest andsharpest battery practices possible, resulting in the rebel gunsbeing disabled and destroyed. During the time that this wastranspiring the regiment was hugging the ground in the rearof the guns, while an enfilading fire from batteries on the leftwas sweeping the ground a few feet in their rear, throwingthe sand all over them. About this time a grand charge was made by the rebel JOHN McGINNIS,Killed at Cold Harbor, June i, 1S64. 56 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT lines upon Morrells and Couchs Divisions, which held thefront The volume of yells as they came on was soon drownedby cheers from the Union side, and the onslaught was f\rst charge took place while the regiment was in supportof the battery, whose position was in the bend of the hne atits turn to the right. When the rebel battery was silenced theregiment was moved to the left, reporting to its brigade com-mander, General Abercrombie, and, swinging mto hne of. SHALERS BRIGADEat Maryes Heights, May 3, 1S63. battle, reheved two of the regiments of the brigade in Couchsline. The left of the regiment was here in a most tryingposition, as the batteries immediately in the rear were firingover the heads of the men. Several were killed and woundedby the premature explosion of our own shells, but the positionwas a vital one and necessary to maintain. Colonel Neill,riding up to the artillery, demanded that the guns be more ele- PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 57 vated so as to clear the line. Soon was discerned, a quarter of amile across the clear fields, three lines of batde emerging fromthe woods in division front. They swept on—the batteries,meanwhile, making great gaps in their lines—undl well withinrange, when our lines opened on them. The Twenty-thirdheld its fire until the enemy were close up, when we poure
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