. History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . xplored by many a foraging party inquest of chickens, and sometimes a duck or a goose found its way 142 history of the third pennsylvania cavalry. October, 1862. into camp. These foragers became so numerous that the FifthRegulars were detailed as a provost guard. Picketing the fordsof the Upper Potomac, and guarding the canal, was the dutyassigned us while encamped at St. James College, and was dis-tinctly in contrast with picketing in Virginia, w
. History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . xplored by many a foraging party inquest of chickens, and sometimes a duck or a goose found its way 142 history of the third pennsylvania cavalry. October, 1862. into camp. These foragers became so numerous that the FifthRegulars were detailed as a provost guard. Picketing the fordsof the Upper Potomac, and guarding the canal, was the dutyassigned us while encamped at St. James College, and was dis-tinctly in contrast with picketing in Virginia, where little elsethan desolation existed. During one of these tours of picketduty, at Four Locks, a party of the enemys cavalry came overand captured one of our vedettes, who, perhaps, was not suffi-ciently cautious. The next day Captain Treichel, commandingour picket force, secured the services of a guide and the useof an old flatboat, and after nightfall crossed the river with adetail of ten men, returning at midnight with all the enemyspickets which he could find, without firing a shot. They gaveus no further annoyance on that tour of Brkjadier- and ];;-(;kni;kal .IoIIN I». MciNToslT, Fi>nnii ly Colonel Third Pennsylvania Cavalry. CHAPTER XI Return to Virginia and the Rappahannock. un to richmond again—piedmont—markham—picketing,scouting, reconnoitering, and fighting—mcclellanrelieved from command of the army—burnsidesucceeds him—mcintosh succeeds averell as col-onel of the regiment—camp on potomac creek. November 1-24, 1862. The clamoring at Washington—by the non-combatants, ofcourse—for another On to Richmond advance was resumedwith unabated vigor. On November 1, in the afternoon, theGeneral was sounded, and camp was struck. Bidding adieuto Maryland, My Maryland, we marched across the Potomacby the pontoon bridge at Berlin, below Harpers Ferry, our bri-gade under General Averell following that of General Pleasonton,who had crossed o
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