. History of the First battalion Pennsylvania six months volunteers and the 187th regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; six months and three years service, civil war, 1863-1865; . TH REGIMENT Late in the Fall our Regiment was ordered to started for City Point, Plain and the mule bringing up therear. At City Point we were to take a steamboat for Washing-ton and the question came up what to do with the mule, but Plainsoon settled that. He took it to a sutler and traded it for awatermelon. He deliberately sat down in the midst of the wholeCompany and ate all of it. I think eve
. History of the First battalion Pennsylvania six months volunteers and the 187th regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; six months and three years service, civil war, 1863-1865; . TH REGIMENT Late in the Fall our Regiment was ordered to started for City Point, Plain and the mule bringing up therear. At City Point we were to take a steamboat for Washing-ton and the question came up what to do with the mule, but Plainsoon settled that. He took it to a sutler and traded it for awatermelon. He deliberately sat down in the midst of the wholeCompany and ate all of it. I think every man in the Companyasked him for a piece, but invariably got the same answer: Notenough to divide; go to thunder and get your own watermelon. The next day as we lay idly on the deck of the steamboat,crossing the Cheapeake Pay, Plain unbuckled an old army spurfrom his heel and turning to me said, Say, Milner, do you wantthis spur to remember the old mule by? Golly, that was a goodwatermelon! We call him Old Plain now. His once jetblack beard is turning gray, and he still will use untheologicallanguage on slight provocation, and I still have the spur to re-member the old PENNSYI^VANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 2ig CHAPTER XXII. A Complete Roster oe the Officers of the 187TH Regiment,P. V. I. Name. Date of Rank. Colonel John S. Schultze, April i, 1864 Colonel John E. Parsons, May 6, 1865 Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Ramsey, July 9, 1863 Lieutenant Colonel John E. Parsons, January 27, 1865 Lieutenant Colonel Joseph A. Ege, May 6, 1865 Major George W. Merrick, February 28, 1864 Major David Z. Seip, May 6, 1865 Adjutant Thomas E. Little, July 9, 1863 Adjutant Jerome W. Henry, May 12, 1864 Quartermaster Matthew McCall, January 27, 1864, Surgeon James P. Wilson, April 14, 1864, Surgeon John C. Fruit, July 19, 1864. Assistant Surgeon Joshua R. Hays, July 24, 1863 Assistant Surgeon W. W. Webb, April 15, 1864, Assistant Surgeon Theodore Jacobs, October 27, 1864, Assistant Surgeon James
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