. History of the First battalion Pennsylvania six months volunteers and the 187th regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; six months and three years service, civil war, 1863-1865; . -;:nt Late in the Fall our Regiment was ordered to started for City Ioint, Blain and the mule bringing up therear. At City Point we were to take a steamboat for Washing-ton and the question came up what to do with the mule, but Blainsoon settled that. He took it to a sutler and traded it for awatermelon. He deliberately sat down in the midst of the wholeCompany and ate all of it. I think ever
. History of the First battalion Pennsylvania six months volunteers and the 187th regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; six months and three years service, civil war, 1863-1865; . -;:nt Late in the Fall our Regiment was ordered to started for City Ioint, Blain and the mule bringing up therear. At City Point we were to take a steamboat for Washing-ton and the question came up what to do with the mule, but Blainsoon settled that. He took it to a sutler and traded it for awatermelon. He deliberately sat down in the midst of the wholeCompany and ate all of it. I think every man in the Companyasked him for a piece, but invariably got the same answer: Notenough to divide; go to thunder and get your own watermelon. The next day as we lay idly on the deck of the steamboat,crossing the Chea])eake Bay, Blain unbuckled an old army spurfrom his heel and turning to me said, Say, Milner, do you wantthis spur to remember the old mule by? Golly, that was a goodwatermelon! We call him Old Blain now. His once jetblack beard is turning gray, and he still will use untheologicallanguage on slight provocation, and I still have the spur to re-member the old PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 219 CHAPTER XXII. A Complete Roster of the Officers of the iS/th Regiment, P. V. I. Name. Date of Rank. Colonel John S. Schultze, April i, 1864. Colonel John E. Parsons, May 6, 1865. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Ramsey, July 9, 1863. Lieutenant Colonel John E. Parsons, January 27, 1865. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph A. Ege, May 6, 1865. Major George W. Merrick, February 28, 1864. Major David Z. Seip, May 6, 1865. Adjutant Thomas E. Little, July 9, 1863. Adjutant Jerome W. Henry, May 12, 1864. Quartermaster Matthew McCall, January 27, 1864. Surgeon James P. Wilson, April 14, 1864. Surgeon John C. Fruit, July 19, 1864. Assistant Surgeon Joshua R. Hays, July 24, 1863. Assistant Surgeon W. W. Webb, April 15, 1864. Assistant Surgeon Theodore Jacobs, October 27, 1864. Assistant Surg
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