. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . el Charles Wilhelm,Major George C. Spear, who was killed while in command ofthe Sixty-first Pennsylvania at Maryes Heights, May 3, 1863 ;Major John Ely, afterwards promoted Brigadier-General; Adju-tant James E. Collins. The Twenty-third remained in campnear Falls of Schuylkill a few days when it was ordered toWashington. The regiment reported to General Burnside,who was in command of troops not brigaded in the vicinity ofthe Capitol. This camp was known as Camp Sprag
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . el Charles Wilhelm,Major George C. Spear, who was killed while in command ofthe Sixty-first Pennsylvania at Maryes Heights, May 3, 1863 ;Major John Ely, afterwards promoted Brigadier-General; Adju-tant James E. Collins. The Twenty-third remained in campnear Falls of Schuylkill a few days when it was ordered toWashington. The regiment reported to General Burnside,who was in command of troops not brigaded in the vicinity ofthe Capitol. This camp was known as Camp Sprague. OnSeptember 8th, it moved to Queens Farm, on the SeventhStreet Road, the camp being known as Camp Graham inhonor of the brigade commander. During the winter theywere given Sibley tents to accommodate sixteen men. Withlittle instructions, they soon built palisades about four feethigh upon which they raised the tents; a stove being placedin the centre (the men lying in a circle) made very comfort-able quarters. While here, by authority of the War Department, it wasrecruited to fifteen companies, twelve of which were from. (;ENL GEURGE B. McCLELLAN,Commanding Army of the Potomac, 1861 to Nov. 1862. 30 PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Philadelphia, one from Pittsburg, one from Wilkesbarre andone from Columbia and assigned to the First Brigade, FirstDivision, Fourth Corps, composed as follows : Sixty-fifth NewYork, the Chasseurs, Colonel John Cochrane ; Sixty-seventhNew York, First Long Island, Colonel Julius W. Adams ;Twenty-third Pennsylvania, Colonel David B. Birney ; Thirty-■ first, afterwards the Eighty-second Pennsylvania, ColonelDavid N. Williams. Brigade Commander, General L. PikeGraham ; Division Commander, General Don Carlos Buell ;Corps Commander, General Erasmus D. Keyes. Its first colors were presented b_v friends in Philadelphiabefore proceeding to the field in the three months service. Whileat this camp the regiment wascarefully instructed in drillsand disc
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