Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers [electronic resource] . Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside. Chapter x. Still on the Move—Rough Virginia Pike—Sad Experiences from the Forced March—Sympathy of General McClellan— Relief to 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry—Major- General A. E. Burnside in Command. Wednesday, November 5, 1862.—Dawn appeared bright-ly as we awoke, with the army being pushed rapidly forward,toward Piedmont and Manassas Gap, in pursuit of the re-treating enemy, over one of the roughest roads, we believe,to be found upon the earth, called a Vir
Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers [electronic resource] . Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside. Chapter x. Still on the Move—Rough Virginia Pike—Sad Experiences from the Forced March—Sympathy of General McClellan— Relief to 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry—Major- General A. E. Burnside in Command. Wednesday, November 5, 1862.—Dawn appeared bright-ly as we awoke, with the army being pushed rapidly forward,toward Piedmont and Manassas Gap, in pursuit of the re-treating enemy, over one of the roughest roads, we believe,to be found upon the earth, called a Virginia pike, andcomposed of all kinds as well as sizes of stones, not even ex-cepting boulders, which had been dumped from the adjoin-ing fields as they were plowed up to the surface out of thisstony region. The marching of the troops and the pullingby the teams were rendered very laborious indeed ; inso-much, that very numerous were they who fell out of lineand straggled by the way, through the roughness of thisroad, while many others were so disabled through foot-soresoccasioned, as to ca
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