. History of the 127th regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, familiarly known as the "Dauphin County regiment." Authorized by the regimental assocaition and prepared by its committee . foe, coveredwith dust. But it was one of our cavalry companies goingtowards our headquarters, or to Washington. The manwith the white hat was hid behind the house peepingaround the corner; after the cavalry passed, this man said,Gad, I thought they were the Rebs. It must have takenhim twenty-four hours to cool off. Everything passed offwell during the night; went over grand rounds after mid-night on foot, accompani
. History of the 127th regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, familiarly known as the "Dauphin County regiment." Authorized by the regimental assocaition and prepared by its committee . foe, coveredwith dust. But it was one of our cavalry companies goingtowards our headquarters, or to Washington. The manwith the white hat was hid behind the house peepingaround the corner; after the cavalry passed, this man said,Gad, I thought they were the Rebs. It must have takenhim twenty-four hours to cool off. Everything passed offwell during the night; went over grand rounds after mid-night on foot, accompanied by Captain Shott, when wepassed down the line about half a mile. We came to apicket posts, where there were three of Company Hsmen posted. Instead of at least one man standing guard,all three had put their guns against a white oak tree, andthe three were lying (on a gum blanket) backs up and fastasleep. It was a beautiful moonlight night, the post wasat the foot of the hill. When we saw the glittering of theguns and bayonets against the tree; we looked and foundthe post fast asleep. Captain Shott drew his sword, andwith the flat side brought it down heavily on the fleshy. CAPTAIN HENRY A. SWARTZ. I,:ltc <.l|-linLMl Cn. ■■{■,. V^Tlll Uc^ lUlCl 11 . 1. V. (Mlilniu Zimnvrs. I27TH REGIMENT, P. V. 21/ part of the three sentinels; at same time we made consid-erable noise, and brandishing our swords in the jumped up dazed, and stood like statues. Tliey weretold the penalty was death for sleeping on a picket post,in face of the enemy. As the regiment was new, and thisbeing the first ofifense, the matter was overlooked, and notreported, but the regiment was carefully instructed in alltheir duties and warned of the penalties. Monday morning, ii a. m. The relief came, and wemarched for Camp Boas, fully satisfied with our forty-eight hours of picketing among the hills of the Potomac. A man may play soldier about home a long time, andeven may think
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