. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . rtillery andinfantry, and compelled to surrender, after a sharp conflict, to anassaulting column actually inferior in numbers to the forces defendingthe works. Four pieces of artillery, four caissons filled with ammuni-tion, the enemys pontoon bridge,eight battle-flags, 2000 stands ofsmall arms, 1600 prisoners, includ-ing 130 commissioned officers, arethe fruits of the victory. The prompt ad\ance of theFifth Corps to the river from theright of its line, simultaneousl
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . rtillery andinfantry, and compelled to surrender, after a sharp conflict, to anassaulting column actually inferior in numbers to the forces defendingthe works. Four pieces of artillery, four caissons filled with ammuni-tion, the enemys pontoon bridge,eight battle-flags, 2000 stands ofsmall arms, 1600 prisoners, includ-ing 130 commissioned officers, arethe fruits of the victory. The prompt ad\ance of theFifth Corps to the river from theright of its line, simultaneouslywith the troops of the Sixth Corps,are worthy of high praise. The taking of the heights onthe right by Neill and Shalersbrigades of the Sixth Corps underGeneral Howe—to obtain positionfor the batteries—was admirablyaccomplished. The assault of the stormingparty, under General Russell, con-ducted over rough open ground in full fire of the works, could not besurpassed in steadiness and gallantry. The brigades of Colonel Ellmaker and Colonel Upton, and thetrOops of the Sixth Corps, which participated in the assault, have. JOSHUA S. GARSED,Lieut. Co. B. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1S63. 108 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT nobly earned the admiration and gratitude of their commander andcommanders. The Sixth Maine and Fifth Wisconsin Volunteers, for carrying theredoubts ; One Hundred and Twenty-first New York, Fifth Maine,Forty-ninth and One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers,for taking the line of rifle pits with the bayonet and seizing theenemys bridge, deserve special honor. By command of Mapr-General Sedgwick, M. T. of Staff and Asst. The next day the regiment was detailed with the Thirty-seventh Massachusetts, Second Rhode Island and Sixty-fifthNew York, under the command of General Eustis, andmarched to Kellys Ford and crossed the river, and assistedin destroying the rebel fortifications. One of the fortshad a checkered histor
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