History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . ave the honor to announce the complete successof my advance this evening, I have driven the enemy from theirworks and now occupy them. Have now 500 prisoners, andhave sent others to Gen. W. F. Smiths headquarters. My menbehaved nobly. Although we have lost heavily, the men arein the best of spirits. During the night the 87th Regiment built temporary de-fences and lay down on the ground behind them. Some of themen fell asleep. Firing had nearly c
History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . ave the honor to announce the complete successof my advance this evening, I have driven the enemy from theirworks and now occupy them. Have now 500 prisoners, andhave sent others to Gen. W. F. Smiths headquarters. My menbehaved nobly. Although we have lost heavily, the men arein the best of spirits. During the night the 87th Regiment built temporary de-fences and lay down on the ground behind them. Some of themen fell asleep. Firing had nearly ceased. Occasionally thezip, zip of a minie ball was heard overhead. The night wasvery dark. About 2 a. m. Major Ruhl was sent back to find thepositions of the other regiments of the brigade. He soon re-turned and notified Col. Stahle that the regiment had lost itssupport on the right and on the left. The enemy had movedforward, and the regiment was in great danger of being sur-rounded. The order to face about was passed along the line — 150 — in a whisper. The regiment fell back quietly and took positionbehind the first line of earth THE SKIRMISH LINE. Gen. .Ricketts received the following congratulatory orderthrough the commander of the 6th Corps: Headquarters Army of the Potomac, June i, 1864,Major General Wright: —Please give my thanks to Brigadier GeneralRicketts and his gallant command, for the very handsome manner in whichthey have conducted themselves in the assault on the enemys works. Thesuccess attained by them is of great importance, and if followed up will ma-terially advance our operations. Very respectfully yours, GEO. G. MEADE,Major General Commanding. In sending this order by an aide, Gen. Wright said, I transmitthis to Gen. Ricketts with the greatest pleasure. During the forenoon of June 2 Col. Schall ordered the capturedworks strengthened for defensive operations. — i5i — Soon after the arrival of Ricketts division at Cold Harbor onJune i Lie
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