. 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; . i;. Ri UN. J ^-oRrijRAi. juiiN j. iii-:s>. CORPORA!. It. :R. 4 HHXRV GABLE. COM PAX V , Mll/roX B. 2 WILLIAM H. HAMILTON. .^ JOSEPH \V. \XV B. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I33 1865, Captain John E. Parsons, of the 150th P. V., was madeLieutenant Colonel of the Regiment at the request of the Companyofficers, and on the nth of May was made Colonel. CaptainEg
. 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; . i;. Ri UN. J ^-oRrijRAi. juiiN j. iii-:s>. CORPORA!. It. :R. 4 HHXRV GABLE. COM PAX V , Mll/roX B. 2 WILLIAM H. HAMILTON. .^ JOSEPH \V. \XV B. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I33 1865, Captain John E. Parsons, of the 150th P. V., was madeLieutenant Colonel of the Regiment at the request of the Companyofficers, and on the nth of May was made Colonel. CaptainEge was then made Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain Seip, ofCompany B, Major. The duties of the Regiment while at this camp were mostlyguard and provost duty. Nearly every week a detachment wassent to City Point, or Washington, with recruits or drafted several occasions the Regiment was called upon to performescort duty at the funeral of some prominent soldier, one of whomwas Major General David B. Birney. On the 22nd of April, 1865, the Regiment acted as escort andguard of honor at the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. The advent of the Regiment into this camp was the begin-ning of a term of hardship, contempt and cruelty on the partof its commandant and other officers, that soon
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