. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . ^Captain Doubleday, United States Army, who afterwards be-came , commanding ist Corps, Army of the Poto-mac, Twenty-Third Penn ■sylvania. Col. Dare; SixthPennsylvania Volunteers,Col. James Nagle; Twenty-first Pennsylvania Volun-teers, Colonel John F. Bal-lier; Twenty-fourth Penn-sylvania Volunteers, , the brigade beingin command of Col. GeorgeH. Thomas, a loyal Virgin-ian who was afterwardsknown as the Rock of Chick-amauga, commanding theArm
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . ^Captain Doubleday, United States Army, who afterwards be-came , commanding ist Corps, Army of the Poto-mac, Twenty-Third Penn ■sylvania. Col. Dare; SixthPennsylvania Volunteers,Col. James Nagle; Twenty-first Pennsylvania Volun-teers, Colonel John F. Bal-lier; Twenty-fourth Penn-sylvania Volunteers, , the brigade beingin command of Col. GeorgeH. Thomas, a loyal Virgin-ian who was afterwardsknown as the Rock of Chick-amauga, commanding theArmy of Tennessee. TheDivision Commander wasMajor General George Cad-wallader, of Chambersburg,AdjutantGillingham was detailed as. ROBERT ,Of Army of the Shenandoah, :S6i. Acting Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of the brigadecommander. Colonel Thomas. From Chambersburg the regi-ment, with the brigade, marched to Greencastle, where it wentinto camp, remaining about a week. While here the brigadewas reviewed by Major General Cadwallader, the division com-mander, thence it marched to Williamsport, Maryland, where itwas engaged in guarding the fords on the Upper enemy at this time was posted at Harpers Ferry,Virginia,under the command of General Joseph E. Johnson. When heperceived General Pattersons army was about to cross thePotomac, he evacuated Harpers Ferry and fell back to BunkerHill. General Patterson, in command of the Department 10 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT having organized an army of some 12,000 at Chambersburg,submitted to General Scott a plan of operation for the reduction of Harpers Ferry, now held by the enemy. The planhaving bee
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