. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . his canteen out, replacing it withthe one with water and feeling good over his win, Harrypulled the canteen up to take another smile, and when hefound it was water, it broke him and the game up. While at Johnsons Island, the boys of the Twenty-thirdPennsylvania who did not re-enlist decided to give the veter-ans a reception upon their rejoining the regiment from fur-lough. As there were lots of wild geese on the lake. SergeantBill Green and Johnnie Kelly started out
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . his canteen out, replacing it withthe one with water and feeling good over his win, Harrypulled the canteen up to take another smile, and when hefound it was water, it broke him and the game up. While at Johnsons Island, the boys of the Twenty-thirdPennsylvania who did not re-enlist decided to give the veter-ans a reception upon their rejoining the regiment from fur-lough. As there were lots of wild geese on the lake. SergeantBill Green and Johnnie Kelly started out with a pocket full ofslugs to the feeding grounds while Trotter Boyle and DavyColville and others made preparations to have a good the hunters returned without the fowl, it was explainedthat when Green started up the birds, they came with such asudden whirl directly over them that it kept Green busy tokeep his feet on the slippery ice, while Kelly with the gunloaded, slipped and fell and lying on his back, blazed he ever missed them was a puzzler. Someof the boys Mil ^PHU. — I 11 II i 158 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT charged Green with loading the gun with beans in place ofslugs; perhaps the geese flew too high before Kelly could geta shot at them; however there were other things to provideand one of the best evenings in edibles and enjoyment washad at the reception of the boys who had re-enlisted for threemore years. George Blank, Company B and William Thomas, Com-pany C both drummer boys of the Twenty-third werecaptured near Stone House Mountain in September, 1863, byMosby, while outside the lines foraging ; they were sent tovarious rebel prisons and finally reached Danville. At thisplace a hole was cut in the stockade and Thomas, with Har-lan S. Howard, Third Wisconsin Battery, and Samuel Street,Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, started for the North. They wereabout a month getting into our lines, coming in at Fayette-vill
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