. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . IRA WEBSTER, Killed at Cold Harbor, June i, 18 80 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by disease, thebroken forms of those whom wounds and sickness have disabled, thestrongest associations which can exist among men, unite us still by anindissoluble tie. We shall ever be comrades in supporting the consti-tution of our country and the nationality of the people. George B. McClellan,Major-General Unite
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . IRA WEBSTER, Killed at Cold Harbor, June i, 18 80 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by disease, thebroken forms of those whom wounds and sickness have disabled, thestrongest associations which can exist among men, unite us still by anindissoluble tie. We shall ever be comrades in supporting the consti-tution of our country and the nationality of the people. George B. McClellan,Major-General United States CAPT. LOUIS HILLEBRAND, FIRST SERGT. WM. R. PEDDLEand Captains Cook. After leaving here we bivouacked for an afternoon andnight at Belle Plain, a most barren and bleak stretch of coun-try, where the men were required to go at least a mile tofind wood or water, picketing and skirmishing with the enemyto Stafford Court House. There we found a court houseand jail with a few other buildings. The regiment remainedin camp near White Oaks Church, engaged in picket dutyand other details, and working on the construction of PotomacCreek Bridge—a high trestle work which the Confederateshad destroyed—until the opening of the Battle of Fredricks-
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