. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . giment, under the lamented Hamblin, showed conspicuous gallantry,losing many men and leaving Major Healy on the ground mortallywounded, as was supposed, we continued our march until the enemysline of defences at the foot of Maryes Heights was encountered, when,by order of the Division commander, the head of the column entered thecity, leaving one of our regiments, the Twenty-third Pennsylvania, de-ployed in the open field facing the never-to-be-forgotten stone
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . giment, under the lamented Hamblin, showed conspicuous gallantry,losing many men and leaving Major Healy on the ground mortallywounded, as was supposed, we continued our march until the enemysline of defences at the foot of Maryes Heights was encountered, when,by order of the Division commander, the head of the column entered thecity, leaving one of our regiments, the Twenty-third Pennsylvania, de-ployed in the open field facing the never-to-be-forgotten stone daylight appeared the men of the Twenty-third found themselvesexposed to the enemys fire, and for five long hours, without an oppor-tunity to even make a cup of coffee, they maintained this harassingposition. About 100 clock Sunday morning the columns and deployedlines were formed by General Newton for storming the heights. Thecolumn on the extreme right was composed of the Sixty-first Pennsyl-vania and Forty-third New York, of the Light Brigade, under thecommand of Colonel Spear, and was supported by the Eighty-second. JESSE CORNELL,Co. K. PENNSYLVANIA \()LUNTEER INFANTRY. 303 Pennsylvania and the Sixty-seventh New York, of our Brigade, undercommand of the speaker. The Twenty-third Pennsylvania formed apart of the deployed line on the left of the second column of Chasseur regiment and the One hundred and twenty-second NewYork were directed to follow with the rest of our Division and join theBrigade after the heights had been carried. Upon the opening of Newtons batteries both columns debouchedfrom under cover, and the deployed lines advanced to the column on the right was enfiladed by batteries stationed in theroad at the top of the hill and in the works on each side of the road ;rifle pits at the base of the hill also confronted him. The column movedout on the double quick, but the road was narrow and before the col-umn had passed over half the d
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