. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . oclock the brigade was ordered to rejoin thecorps. While subject to my order, it behaved with admirablecoolness, and manifested to an eminent degree the possessionof the greatest attributes of the soldier, both during the briefperiod (as per orders) they were actively engaged and while under heavy fire, as theyawaited the moment theymight be called upon. Their casualties num-bered in the aggregate forty-five — eleven enlisted menbeing killed. Their brave and eff
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . oclock the brigade was ordered to rejoin thecorps. While subject to my order, it behaved with admirablecoolness, and manifested to an eminent degree the possessionof the greatest attributes of the soldier, both during the briefperiod (as per orders) they were actively engaged and while under heavy fire, as theyawaited the moment theymight be called upon. Their casualties num-bered in the aggregate forty-five — eleven enlisted menbeing killed. Their brave and efficientcommander. Brigadier GeneralAlexander Shaler is entitled tothe warmest eulogies for hisreadiness to participate in anymeasure to provide for theemergencies besetting us. When it was discovered that Lee had retreated, the Sixth Corps, on the morning of the 5th, moved out the road to the right of Little Round Top. When about five miles from Gettysburg, the Corps struck Lees rear guard, on the Cham- bersburg Pike, skirmishing with him to Fairfield. During the night the regiment was on picket, capturing eighty-five prison-. Co. G. WILLIAM GRAHAM,Died of wounds received at ColdHarbor June, 1864. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 103
Size: 1428px × 1751px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidhistoryoftwe, bookyear1904
