. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . 861,the organization of the army waspractically completed, and fromthat time until April, 1862, whenthe Peninsula campaign was begun,were drilled and schooled in thepractices of war. The monotonousroutine of camp life was varied onlyby an occasional wild rumor of aj^preaching rebels, and a reconnais-sance of the surrounding country. With the exception of a skirmish at Lewinsville, Xirgmia, just be-yond Chain Bridge, in which a part of the Brigade (the Chasseur r
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . 861,the organization of the army waspractically completed, and fromthat time until April, 1862, whenthe Peninsula campaign was begun,were drilled and schooled in thepractices of war. The monotonousroutine of camp life was varied onlyby an occasional wild rumor of aj^preaching rebels, and a reconnais-sance of the surrounding country. With the exception of a skirmish at Lewinsville, Xirgmia, just be-yond Chain Bridge, in which a part of the Brigade (the Chasseur regi-ment) was engaged, the troops had so far experienced only the drudg-ery and the jollities of camp life. But this was ended in the sprmg of1862 by the cry of On to Richmond, when our Brigade, with therest of the army, took transports at Alexandria, for Fortress Monroe^In the meantime the Sixty-first Pennsylvania, Colonel Rippey, had joined us. The campaign was begun witl^three Corps of the army, to wit :-the Second, commanded by General Sumner ; the Third, commandedby General Heintzelman, and the Fourth, commanded by General. ELIAS ,Co. 1. 298 HISTORY OF THE TVVENTV-THIRD REGIMENT
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