. Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d regiment, Penn'a volunteers. Compiled from notes, sketches, facts and incidents. rcamps, until-the dark night hours set in, when we turned intoroost for rest, but brief and disturbed at that. Amd Still They Came!—The Gallant, yet WorstedVeterans—Rebel Sites Captured, etc. Thursday, August 28, 1S62.—The weather continuedwarm. All day long the men poured in, but from Hookers,Porters, and other corps, and the whole army seemed thento be concentrating here. Several rebel spies had been cap-tured and brought into camp, while on every hand rei
. Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d regiment, Penn'a volunteers. Compiled from notes, sketches, facts and incidents. rcamps, until-the dark night hours set in, when we turned intoroost for rest, but brief and disturbed at that. Amd Still They Came!—The Gallant, yet WorstedVeterans—Rebel Sites Captured, etc. Thursday, August 28, 1S62.—The weather continuedwarm. All day long the men poured in, but from Hookers,Porters, and other corps, and the whole army seemed thento be concentrating here. Several rebel spies had been cap-tured and brought into camp, while on every hand reignedbustle, dismay, confusion, and excitement. The poor andtried veterans, as they poured into our camps, afforded bytheir appearances most undoubted evidences of the severeduties and services they had rendered, sufferings and priva-tions undergone, as well as the hard-fought battles in whichthey had been engaged—and yet, withal, had been routed ;for woe, scars, defeat, and discourage were depicted intheir countenances, while they also looked jaded and fam- FAIRFAX : Map of ¥A1K£A?L ee«ETj urn AND VICINITYOapuse /S6Z. References =—» VnimTrocps « = =» » Jioutcs —— Gin&U£ Troops —— - JiiLCCs ofM^prJl***-*■ Juul Hjadj—— Tur*if>***t I22d Regiment Pe?ina Volunteers. 29 ished—a sight to us boys not by any means cheering orgratifying. Second Disastrous Failure at Bull Run—Army Concentrat-ing AT CeNTREVILLE. Friday, August 29, 1862.—Weather still warm. Thereports from the front this morning indicated that a greatdisaster had been the result, as rout upon rout had followedrapidly, and that a stand would next be made near Centre-Yille, as the rebels had burned the railroad bridge at BullRun, while in pursuit of Popes retreating army—thus con-stituting the second disastrous failure at that point, which hadfallen to the lot of our gallant comrades, and furnishedthousands of unknown victims. Our forces were then beingrapidly conce
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