. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . IRA WEBSTER, Killed at Cold Harbor. June i, 1S64. Headquarters Army of Potomac. Camp near Rectortown, \a. Noxember 7, and Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac :An order of the President devolves ui)on Major-General Hurnsidethe command of this army. In parting from you I cannot express the love and gratitude Ihave for you. As an army, you have grown up under my care. Inyou I have never found doubt or coldness. The battles you have fought u
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . IRA WEBSTER, Killed at Cold Harbor. June i, 1S64. Headquarters Army of Potomac. Camp near Rectortown, \a. Noxember 7, and Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac :An order of the President devolves ui)on Major-General Hurnsidethe command of this army. In parting from you I cannot express the love and gratitude Ihave for you. As an army, you have grown up under my care. Inyou I have never found doubt or coldness. The battles you have fought under my command will li\e in ournations history. The glory you have achieved, our mutual perils and 80 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by disease, thebroken forms of those whom wounds and sickness have disabled, thestrongest associations which can exist among men, unite us still by anindissoluble tie. We shall ever be comrades in supporting the consti-tution of our country and the nationality of the people. George B. McClellan,Major-General United States CAPT. LOUIS HILLEBRAND, FIRST WM. R. PEDDLEand Captains Cook. After leaving here we bivouacked for an afternoon andnight at Belle Plain, a most barren and bleak stretch of coun-try, where the men were required to go at least a mile tofind wood or water, picketing and skirmishing with the enemyto Stafford Court House. There we found a court houseand jail with a few other buildings. The regiment remainedin camp near White Oaks Church, engaged in picket dutyand other details, and working on the construction of PotomacCreek Bridge—a high trestle work which the Confederateshad destroyed—until the opening of the Battle of Fredricks-
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