History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . id that some of the very goodboys got into the guard house. The summer of 1862 was passing by and camp life on thebanks of the Potomac River was soon to end. The succeedingchapter tells of the campaign in West Virginia. CHAPTER III. CAMPAIGNING IN WEST VIRGINIA BEVERLY CLARKSBURG ELKWATER CRAB BOTTOM. On the following day Gen. Kelley ordered eight companies oithe 87th Regiment, under Col. Hay, and one section ofORourkes battery, from New Creek t
History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . id that some of the very goodboys got into the guard house. The summer of 1862 was passing by and camp life on thebanks of the Potomac River was soon to end. The succeedingchapter tells of the campaign in West Virginia. CHAPTER III. CAMPAIGNING IN WEST VIRGINIA BEVERLY CLARKSBURG ELKWATER CRAB BOTTOM. On the following day Gen. Kelley ordered eight companies oithe 87th Regiment, under Col. Hay, and one section ofORourkes battery, from New Creek to Rowlesburg, where theyarrived at 2:30 p. m. of August 21. They at once began to march southward in the direction ofSt. George, the seat of justice of Tucker county, in search of theenemy. A caisson of ammunition slid down an embankment, adistance of seventy-five feet toward Cheat River. This accidentcaused an hours delay and the party halted for the night arounda small church, eight miles from Rowlesburg. Some of the menslept that night on the ground in a heavy rain. Tents and othercamp equipments were left with Companies H and I at UITE early in the morn-ing of August 20,informa-tion came to New Creekthat a large band of guer-rillas under General Im-boden, was marching to-ward Rowlesburg, a viblage in the mountain re-gion of Western enemys desire was tcdestroy the Baltimore andOhio railroad bridge overCheat River at that place. — 3o — Early the next morning the party hastened to St. George, butJmboden, after destroying the court records and robbing thepost office, had left before their arrival. After marching fivemiles and fording Cheat River three times in that short distancethey bivouacked in an open field. The line of march was takenup at 8 oclock the next day. Crossed Cheat River again atBlacks Ford and halted until noon at Hollow Meadows. Here, says Sergeant Major Stallman in his diary, we cap-tured a lot of chickens, geese and sheep. There w
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