History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information (1901) (14756467756)

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Title: History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 87th (1861-1865)
Publisher: York, Pa., Press of the York daily
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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OFTEN THE CASE. men come into camp with a ham on his back and one under hisarm. Some brought in fine chickens and turkeys. The officerseach got a share and everybody was happy. A member of Com-pany K captured some small pigs and roasted them whole. Twoboys of Company I brought in a full grown pig and slaughteredit in camp. Gen. Milroy and staff arrived from New Creek on the nth. Be-fore leaving that camp he ordered Col. Hay to remain at NewCreek, until further orders with general supervision of mattersat that post. On the 12th Cluseret sent the 87th as a scouting party on theFranklin Road. They went 12 miles, finding no enemy, facedabout and returned to Petersburg. — 52 — On the night of the 14th a cavalryman came into camp withthe unwelcome news that Burnside had been defeated at Fred-ericksburg and lost 12,000 men in killed, wounded and missingthe day before. On the 16th the brigade marched to Moorefield, arriving therein a heavy snow storm. It was the prettiest town the boys
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MAKING BEDS FOR THE NIGHT. had yet seen in West Virginia, and the surrounding countrywas fertile. While the cavalry were foraging for hay for theirhorses they found a large quantity of whiskey in a barn. W7hile at Moorefield General Cluseret heard that a force ofConfederates were in camp at Lost River. On December 8he asked for volunteers to go with him and rout them. Theywere to be supplied with five days rations, but were to leave — 53 — their tents at Moorefield. The 87th Regiment volunteered togo. The other part of the expedition was composed of a squad-ron of cavalry, two mountain howitzers and one wagon. Thedistance was seventeen miles, across the south branch of theShenandoah mountains. They had to move by a road neverbefore used as a wagon route. It was narrow, and at placesvery steep and full of bowlders. The artillery and wagon hadgreat difficulty in moving. They arrived at Lost River village,composed of four dwelling houses and a stable, at 8 p. m. Theenemy had disappea