. Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Walter R. Madison. Daniel W. Bates. gen. smiths address. 343 have answered the question. The Twenty-Seventh mustered one officer and eighty men, and, worn by thefatigues of the day and night previous, lay down to sleep,regardless of the shells which fell around them during theentire day. During the evening, the Eighteenth Corps wasrelieved by the Sixth Corps and marched back to Point ofRocks, reaching there about midnight. We camped on thesame groun
. Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Walter R. Madison. Daniel W. Bates. gen. smiths address. 343 have answered the question. The Twenty-Seventh mustered one officer and eighty men, and, worn by thefatigues of the day and night previous, lay down to sleep,regardless of the shells which fell around them during theentire day. During the evening, the Eighteenth Corps wasrelieved by the Sixth Corps and marched back to Point ofRocks, reaching there about midnight. We camped on thesame grounds occupied by us previous to our departure forCold Harbor, experiencing the novel sensation of rest un-disturbed by z-z-p of ball or bursting shells. While hereGenl Smith took occasion to promulgate the followingcomplimentary address : — To the Eighteenth Army Corps; — The General commanding desires to express to his command hisappreciation of the soldierly qualities displayed during the cam-paign of the last seventeen days. Within that time they have been constantly called upon toundergo the hardships of a soldiers life and b
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