. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . loccupy a page on the annals of the war brilliant with heroicdeeds performed during the short but memorable campaign of 280 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT April and May, 63. Its organization dates from February 3,of that year, and was originally intended to have been com-posed of two Pennsylvania regiments, the Twenty-third andSixty-first, two New York regiments and one each from Maine and Wisconsin, but for somereasons the Twenty-third wasassigned to other dut
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . loccupy a page on the annals of the war brilliant with heroicdeeds performed during the short but memorable campaign of 280 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT April and May, 63. Its organization dates from February 3,of that year, and was originally intended to have been com-posed of two Pennsylvania regiments, the Twenty-third andSixty-first, two New York regiments and one each from Maine and Wisconsin, but for somereasons the Twenty-third wasassigned to other duty andthe Light Division organized—Sixth Maine, Fifth Wisconsin,Thirty-first and Forty-thirdNew York, Sixty-first Pennsyl-vania and Harns Light Batteryof New York, the whole com-manded by General Piatt of NewYork. During the preparationfor the spring campaign no un-usual event marked the historyof the Division, snugly quar-tered near Belle Plains Land-ing, well fed and clothed (forHooker was an excellent quar-termaster), no picket duty tosupplied sutlers tent. The boys ledthe 27th of April with the gen-left with no little. JAMES BROWN,Corporal Co. E. perform and a wellan easy life of it. Oneral orders to move, we broke camp andregret at the parting, marching to the banks of the Rappa-hannock near Franklins Crossing. Our first light duty beganwith the carrying of pontoons, but inspired by the order ofGeneral Hooker that we were now in a position to force Leeto fight on ground of our own selection or ingloriously flee toRichmond we worked with a vim in the darkness of mid-night. A successful landing having been made, the Light Divis-ion advanced on Saturday, May 2nd, and after considerableskirmishing captured the Bowling Green Road in rear andsoutheast of the city of Fredericksburg. During the nightSedgwick was busily engaged in disposing his Corps for anattack in the morning along the heights made red with theblood of many brave fellows who went down in the terribleassaults mad
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