. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . e of the town, the enemy opened a most destructive fireof artillery and musketry from the Heights, rifle pits and fromthe famous stone wall at its base, and for a moment the headof the column staggered and wavered. Spear fell, the rankswere closed, and the rush madebut only to be again this, I pushed up thesupports and in a solid massthe column rushed onward overthe wall and up the knew that after passing thestone wall we had turned
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . e of the town, the enemy opened a most destructive fireof artillery and musketry from the Heights, rifle pits and fromthe famous stone wall at its base, and for a moment the headof the column staggered and wavered. Spear fell, the rankswere closed, and the rush madebut only to be again this, I pushed up thesupports and in a solid massthe column rushed onward overthe wall and up the knew that after passing thestone wall we had turned theirfi a n k. Hastening up theHeights my first thoughts wereto get the men into some forma-tion and this required no littleeffort, as they were wild withenthusiasm and filled withecstasy over the important cap-ture. Looking around, I sawmy two gallant aides—Lieuten-ants Armstrong and Johnsonof the Twenty-third Pennsylvania—at my side and gave themorders to have the regimental flags stationed in line and toinstruct in speedily forming line of battle without regard tocompanies or regiments, as one thousand resolute men that. E.
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