. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . with his abandoned dead andwounded, wagons and caissons stuck in the mud, and occas-ional pieces of artillery. This town is one of the oldestsettlements in Virginia; here was held the seat of the govern-ment during the colonial days. In the House of Burgess, atthat period holding session in the old town, Patrick Henry, theorator, of Virginia, in hisfamous speech, declared, Give me liberty, or give medeath! It was from Will-iamsburg that Washingtonstarted on his exped
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . with his abandoned dead andwounded, wagons and caissons stuck in the mud, and occas-ional pieces of artillery. This town is one of the oldestsettlements in Virginia; here was held the seat of the govern-ment during the colonial days. In the House of Burgess, atthat period holding session in the old town, Patrick Henry, theorator, of Virginia, in hisfamous speech, declared, Give me liberty, or give medeath! It was from Will-iamsburg that Washingtonstarted on his expedition intothe wilderness to protect thefrontier settlements fromdepredations by the Indiansand French. We found allthe people had gone toRichmond, with the exceptionof the women and old guards were placedall over the town and thepeople, from that time untilthe close of the war, weresupplied with rations by our Government. Like all towns inthe Confederacy, the hatred for the Yankee was quite of the oldest educational establishments, Williamsand Mary College, founded in colonial days, is here located;. LIEUT. JAMES JOHNSTON,Co. E. Killed at Cold Harbor, June i, 1864. 42 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT
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