Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers [electronic resource] . ve met you before. My replywas, well, I dont know where, when he responded by the query, were you notone of the boys at the Chancellorsville fight? My rejoinder was, yes, you areright; I was there! Said he, then, well, I saw you there andpulled for you downby the Hazel Swamp, between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, on Saturday af-ternoon, May 2. You were then Orderly Sergeant, as you are now, and by that mark Irecognize you ! This was sufficient explanation, and rather indicated a pe
Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers [electronic resource] . ve met you before. My replywas, well, I dont know where, when he responded by the query, were you notone of the boys at the Chancellorsville fight? My rejoinder was, yes, you areright; I was there! Said he, then, well, I saw you there andpulled for you downby the Hazel Swamp, between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, on Saturday af-ternoon, May 2. You were then Orderly Sergeant, as you are now, and by that mark Irecognize you ! This was sufficient explanation, and rather indicated a peculiarlyclose acquaintance at that time and place—therefore the more interesting to myself.[Having indulged hopes of again meeting the poor fellow at some future day, Iasked of him his name, etc., which he gave as cither Sergeant Robinson or SergeantRoberts, (I cannot remember exactly which,) of the Fifth Alabama Regiment. How-ever, as that opportunity has never yet occurred or been aflorded, it is to be pre-sumed that he may have been killed, after his exchange, in some other engagementot the war.]. I22d Regiment Peuna Volunteers. 289 Having now retraced our steps to higher ground, in fullview of an open plateau, where a council of war, as itis commonly termed, was held by Major-General Sicklesand his other General officers, we could also see, in thedistance westward, heavy clouds of dust arising, whichgave direct evidence that the rebels were concentrating theirforces for some movement or operation in store for us, butwhich was then or could only be a matter of conjecture. The 8th and 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry were then sent tous by General Pleasanton, together with a light field-bat-tery which was stationed in their rear, as word had been re-ceived that the nth Corps had been broken, and that we ofthe 3d Corps were cut off from Hookers main Army. About7 p. m. , a detachment of the 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cav-alry, under Major Keenan, then advanced up the road toa gallop
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