. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . t ofDecember ist the whole army fell back, our regiment passingthrough Chancellorsville, the Gold Mines, and crossing at Ger-mania Ford, finally reaching its old camp ; loss, i killed and 7wounded. On December 6th Colonel Ely resigned on account ofwounds and sickness, and was succeeded as Colonel by Lieu-tenant-Colonel John F. William J. Wallace waspromoted to Lieutenant-Coloneland Captain Henry Reese toMajor. The friends of the Twenty-third in Phila
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . t ofDecember ist the whole army fell back, our regiment passingthrough Chancellorsville, the Gold Mines, and crossing at Ger-mania Ford, finally reaching its old camp ; loss, i killed and 7wounded. On December 6th Colonel Ely resigned on account ofwounds and sickness, and was succeeded as Colonel by Lieu-tenant-Colonel John F. William J. Wallace waspromoted to Lieutenant-Coloneland Captain Henry Reese toMajor. The friends of the Twenty-third in Philadelphia gave aball at Sansom Street Hall forthe benefit of the the proceeds was pur-chased six hundred pairs ofwoolen gloves, and a new standof colors containing a list of thebattles in which the regimentparticipated inscribed thereon,all being received by the regi-ment while in the field. A shorttime previously the ladies of Bucks County, friends of Col-onel Ely, sent the enlisted men ear comforters, so that the boyswere fairly protected, through the kindess of friends, from thechilly blasts of the severe JAMES iAIi:,Drummer. Co. E. no HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT
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