. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . ravine. Then began one of the shortest andsharpest battery practices possible, resulting in the rebel gunsbeing disabled and destroyed. During the time that this wastranspiring the regiment was hugging the ground in the rearof the guns, while an enfilading fire from batteries on the leftwas sweeping the ground a few feet in their rear, throwingthe sand all over them. About this time a grand charge was made by the rebel Co. E. JOHN McGlNNIS,Killed at Cold Harbor, June
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . ravine. Then began one of the shortest andsharpest battery practices possible, resulting in the rebel gunsbeing disabled and destroyed. During the time that this wastranspiring the regiment was hugging the ground in the rearof the guns, while an enfilading fire from batteries on the leftwas sweeping the ground a few feet in their rear, throwingthe sand all over them. About this time a grand charge was made by the rebel Co. E. JOHN McGlNNIS,Killed at Cold Harbor, June i, 1864. 56 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT lines upon Morrells and Couchs Divisions, which held thefront. The volume of 3ells as they came on was soon drownedby cheers from the Union side, and the onslaught was first charge took place while the regiment was in supportof the battery, whose position was in the bend of the line atits turn to the right. When the rebel battery was silenced theregiment was moved to the left, reporting to its brigade com-mander, General Abercrombie, and, swinging into line of. SHALERS BRIGADEat Maryes Heights, May 3, 1863. battle, relieved two of the regiments of the brigade in Couchsline. The left of the regiment was here in a most tryingposition, as the batteries immediately in the rear were firingover the heads of the men. Several were killed and woundedby the premature explosion of our own shells, but the positionwas a vital one and necessary to maintain. Colonel Neill,riding up to the artillery, demanded that the guns be more ele- PENNSYLNANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 57 vated so as to clear the line. Soon was discerned, a quarter of amile across the clear fields, three lines of battle emerging fromthe woods in division front. They swept on—the batteries,meanwhile, making great gaps in their lines—until well withinrange, when our lines opened on them. The Twenty-thirdheld its fire until the enemy were close up, when we pouredin
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