History of the Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865 [electronic resource]: comprising an authentic narrative of Casey's division at the Battle of Seven Pines . e refuge in their shelter tents, although they werecompletely drenched before doing so, as they had been rushed into line of battlewithout rubber blankets, and in returning to camp at places, were forced towade through water ankle deep. It was through the fiercest part of this stormthat Company D, reinforced by several men from other companies, under com-mand of Lieut. John E. Michener, marched to the picket l
History of the Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865 [electronic resource]: comprising an authentic narrative of Casey's division at the Battle of Seven Pines . e refuge in their shelter tents, although they werecompletely drenched before doing so, as they had been rushed into line of battlewithout rubber blankets, and in returning to camp at places, were forced towade through water ankle deep. It was through the fiercest part of this stormthat Company D, reinforced by several men from other companies, under com-mand of Lieut. John E. Michener, marched to the picket line to relieve CompanyB, on picket duty south of the Williamsburg road. Gen. Keyes in his officialreport of the battle of Seven Pines refers to this tempestuous night as follows: Through all the night of the 30th of May there was a raging storm the like of whichI cannot remember. Torrents of rain drenched the earth, the thunderbolts rolled and fellwithout intermission, and the heavens flashed with a perpetual blaze of lightning. Fromtheir beds of mud and the peltings of this storm the Fourth Corps rose to fight the battleof the 31st of May, 1862. [O. R., Vol. XI, part I, p. 873.]. MAJ. GEN. SILAS CASEY. Battle of Seven Pines CHAPTER VI. A FOREWORD. Battle of Seven Pines.—Position of Caseys Division.—85th PennsylvaniaRegiment Assigned Post of Honor. May 31 and June 1, 1862. They never fail who die In a great cause! The block may soak their gore; Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls;— But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.—Byron The vast compilation that follows pertaining to one battle only, in which the85th Regiment participated, requires a foreword of explanation. An honorabledischarge from the Army, coupled with a true record of the services renderedb
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