. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . eld service began, when they became the best of friends. When theoriginal term of service ex-pired, the veterans and re-cruits of the Twenty-thirdPennsylvania were trans-ferred to the Eighty-secondPennsylvania, while those ofthe Sixty-seventh New Yorkwere transferred to the Sixty-fifth New York. It is saidthat the Sixty-fifth New York(The Chasseurs) had thehonor of being the last regi-ment of volunteers to be mus-tered out. While the otherregiments of the brigad
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . eld service began, when they became the best of friends. When theoriginal term of service ex-pired, the veterans and re-cruits of the Twenty-thirdPennsylvania were trans-ferred to the Eighty-secondPennsylvania, while those ofthe Sixty-seventh New Yorkwere transferred to the Sixty-fifth New York. It is saidthat the Sixty-fifth New York(The Chasseurs) had thehonor of being the last regi-ment of volunteers to be mus-tered out. While the otherregiments of the brigadeserved in two divisions of theCorps, the One Hundred and Twenty-second New York hadthe honor to wear the three colors of the Greek Cross, havingserved in all three divisions of the Sixth Corps, the Sixty-firstbeing entitled to wear the colors of the Third Division, LightDivision, and Second Division, blue, green, and white. The brigade as an organization came together but oncesince the close of the war, the occasion being the dedication oftheir monuments at Culps Hill, Gettysburg, in 1888. The re-union was a most pleasant PATRICK HICKEY, WM. J. WRAV,Co. F. Blanket mates, wounded by same ball.
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