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Title: Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers (electronic resource)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Sprenger, George F
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 122nd (1862-1863)
Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : New Era Steam Book Print
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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ary parlanceas a grand rout and disaster. Thus they poured into ourcamps, until the dark night hours set in, when we turned intoroost for rest, but brief and disturbed at that. And Still They Came !—The Gallant, yet WorstedVeterans—.Rebel Spies Captured, etc. Thursday, August 28, 1862.—The weather continuedwarm. All day long the men poured in, but from Hookers,Porters, and other corps, and the whole army seemed thento be concentrating here. Several rebel spies had been cap-tured and brought into camp, while on every hand reignedbustle, dismay, confusion, and excitement. The poor andtried veterans, as they poured into our camps, afforded bytheir appearances most undoubted evidences of the severeduties and services they had rendered, sufferings and priva-tions undergone, as well as the hard-fought battles in whichthey had been engaged—and yet, withal, had been routed ;lor woe, scars, defeat, and discourage were depicted intheir countenances, while they also looked jaded and fam-
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122(1 Regiment Penna Volunteers. 29 ished—a sight to us boys not by any means cheering orgratifying. Second Disastrous Failure at Bull Run—Army Concentrat-ing AT CENTREVILLE. Friday, August 29, 1862.—Weather still warm. Thereports from the front this morning indicated that a greatdisaster had been the result, as rout upon rout had followedrapidly, and that a stand would next be made near Centre -ville, as the rebels had burned the railroad bridge at BullRun, while in pursuit of Popes retreating army—thus con-stituting the second disastrous failure at that point, which hadfallen to the lot of our gallant comrades, and furnishedthousands of unknown victims. Our forces were then beingrapidly concentrated at Centreville, so report had it, whileall around us the cavalry, artillery, and infantry were reform-ing for the forward move again, anxiously, too, awaiting theorders—especially with a view of getting away from the de-moralizing and disheartening scenes or sounds which greete

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