. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . HENRY W. BANTOM,Co, G, Died Januar> 27, 1S64. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER JAMES SWEENEY,Co. E. Killed at Cold Harbor, June i, i8 we did not have the pleasure or opportunity to pay ourrespects to the grave of the Father of His Country, Welearn that while no troops were ever-engaged on the planta-tion, many Confederates and Yankees visited the old home-stead, and, be it said to thecredit of both, neither thehomestead nor grave weredisturbed in the least. With
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . HENRY W. BANTOM,Co, G, Died Januar> 27, 1S64. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER JAMES SWEENEY,Co. E. Killed at Cold Harbor, June i, i8 we did not have the pleasure or opportunity to pay ourrespects to the grave of the Father of His Country, Welearn that while no troops were ever-engaged on the planta-tion, many Confederates and Yankees visited the old home-stead, and, be it said to thecredit of both, neither thehomestead nor grave weredisturbed in the least. With the Army of thePotomac the regiment startedon the Maryland having crossed into Mary-land on his invasion, wecrossed the Potomac at ChainBridge and bivouacked atRockville. Here, on the nth,the brigade was joined by theOne Hundred and Twenty-second New York. At Pool-ville the Twenty-third Penn-sylvania, the Thirty-sixthNew York, a Rhode Island battery and a squadron of cavalrywas detached, under the command of Colonel Neill, to guardthe fords from Whites to Nolans Ferry. This was the pointwhere Lee had crossed with his army, and the regiment wasengaged in picking up his stragglers, broken-down
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