. History of the First battalion Pennsylvania six months volunteers and the 187th regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; six months and three years service, civil war, 1863-1865; . greeable; raining very fast allday; cleared up in the evening; broke camp and marched toAlexandria, Va.; arrived there about 7 oclock p. m. Regimentembarked on Government transports D. H. Mount and theThorn; lay in the harbor all that night. May 26th, set sail from Alexandria at daybreak for PortRoyal, Va. Scenery grand; passed Fort Washington and early in the evening; cast anchor at Point Lookout, onCh
. History of the First battalion Pennsylvania six months volunteers and the 187th regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; six months and three years service, civil war, 1863-1865; . greeable; raining very fast allday; cleared up in the evening; broke camp and marched toAlexandria, Va.; arrived there about 7 oclock p. m. Regimentembarked on Government transports D. H. Mount and theThorn; lay in the harbor all that night. May 26th, set sail from Alexandria at daybreak for PortRoyal, Va. Scenery grand; passed Fort Washington and early in the evening; cast anchor at Point Lookout, onChesapeake Bay, about sunset; stayed about two hours and thenset sail once more; sailed nearly all night. May 27th, on waking this morning we found ourselves justentering the mouth of the Rappahannock River. Sailed up toUrbanna and our escort (a gunboat) went back. Waited until 3oclock p. m.; set sail with an escort of two gunboats, it beingunsafe for us to venture alone as the country was infested withguerillas. We proceeded up the river till dark, when we runaground and stuck fast in the mud, and were unable to get offthat night. Philip F. Christian, of Company I, was
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