. History of the One hundred and fiftieth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, Second regiment, Bucktail brigade, . n the pontoons. GeneralBenham, chief of the pontoons, has replied, vindicating hispontoons. In this last report General Benham makes two orthree misstatements, maintaining, among other things, that hispontoniers put up eight pontoons in thirty minutes. In thefirst place, but six pontoons were put together. Secondly, thiswas done mainly by our men. the pontoniers proving , this could be done only by fastening them with ropesborrowed from the houses around. On Monday, Ap
. History of the One hundred and fiftieth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, Second regiment, Bucktail brigade, . n the pontoons. GeneralBenham, chief of the pontoons, has replied, vindicating hispontoons. In this last report General Benham makes two orthree misstatements, maintaining, among other things, that hispontoniers put up eight pontoons in thirty minutes. In thefirst place, but six pontoons were put together. Secondly, thiswas done mainly by our men. the pontoniers proving , this could be done only by fastening them with ropesborrowed from the houses around. On Monday, April 27, the Eleventh. Twelfth and FifthCorps broke camp and began the march towards Chancellors-ville. On the following day the Sixth, Third and First Corpswere on the banks of the Rappahannock,—the First atPollocks Mills, nearly four miles below Fredericksburg, witha pontoon bridge successfully laid and one division (the First,—Wadsworths) firmly established on the south side; the Sixtha mile or two higher up. with its pontoons also in position, andone division safely across. On Wednesday, the 29th, the. TOIIX I. RKVXOLDS. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS 85 Third Corps left for Chancellorsville, the Second mo\ing toBankss Ford the same day. The First and Sixth restedquietly, awaiting the result of the movement of the main por-tion of the army. On Friday heavy firing was heard in awesterly direction, announcing an engagement betweenHookers and Lees forces. On Saturday morning, May 2, the First Corps was underarms at a fairly early hour, with orders to proceed to Chancel-lorsville. For some reason the start was delayed a considerablewhile, during which some of the enemys batteries in the forti-fications a mile or more beyond the river dropped several scoresof shells and solid shot among the troops, causing a generalstampede of the colored servants, but resulting in very fewcasualties. The 150th escaped injury entirely, but ColonelWister had a narrow call, a shell dr
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