History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . PONTOON BRIDGE ACROSS THERAPIDAN COLONEL JOHN W. SCHALL. 121 hosts were soon to make battle record, for slaughter, unparallel-ed in American history to be read and re-read with intense in-terest, as long as the English language shall be spoken. Lees headquarters was a distance beyond the river at OrangeCourt House; Grants in his saddle. As commander-in-chief ofall the armies, he now penned his famous telegram to Sherman tobegin his march
History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information . PONTOON BRIDGE ACROSS THERAPIDAN COLONEL JOHN W. SCHALL. 121 hosts were soon to make battle record, for slaughter, unparallel-ed in American history to be read and re-read with intense in-terest, as long as the English language shall be spoken. Lees headquarters was a distance beyond the river at OrangeCourt House; Grants in his saddle. As commander-in-chief ofall the armies, he now penned his famous telegram to Sherman tobegin his march from Chattanooga toward Atlanta and the sea todestroy the Confederate work shops in Georgia, and cut the Con-federacy in twain. Then he issued orders to the army aroundhim with the expectation of a general engagement with theenemy on the following day, May 5. After crossing Germannia Ford on the evening of May 4, andcamping for the night, Gen. Morris directed the 87th Regimentto throw out videttes. During the evening low camp fires of thedifferent commands were plainly visible in every direction. Thebrigade began to move at 7 a. m. of May 5. An aide fromRicketts brought to Gen. Morri
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