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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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ty, for three or four days at a time. Heavy fir-ing was heard in camp on February 6. The regiment marchedat 5 p. m. and arrived at Pony Mountain, 8 miles from camp at9 p. m. It rained all night, and the men lav down on theground to sleep without tents. They returned to camp the nextday in mud, at places knee deep. At dress parade on Feb. 13,the regiment wore new suits, making a splendid appearance.February 17 was the coldest night of the winter. The bovsremained in their cabins all day. The next day the Rappahan-nock was a sheet of ice, but there were no skates within sixtymiles of camp. The re-enlistment fever that broke out early in January, stillcontinued until 180 of the regiment entered the veteran service,receiving a government bounty of $400, and also a local bountyfrom the district to which they were accredited. General French reviewed his corps on March t6, on the farmof Hon. John Minor Botls, a noted Virginian who was loyal tothe Union and opposed the secession of his State.
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— 112 — On March 27, Colonel Stahle who during the temporary ab-sence of General B. F. Smith, had been appointed to commandthe 3d Brigade held a review. Major Ruhl was then in com-mand of the regiment, which received pay for two months onthe 22d, and the next day the deepest snow of the winter fell.An equinoctial storm blew it into drifts. Soon the warmrays of the sun melted it and mud was plentiful and cheap. FirstSergeant James B. Beck was in command of Company D forseveral months, while the regiment was in winter quarters atBrandy Station. On March 3, Congress passed an act reviving the rank ofLieutenant General. President Lincoln bestowed this high hon-or upon General Grant. His brilliant record as a commanderin the West, caused public opinion as well as military judgmentto point him out as the one person fitted for the position. At acabinet meeting in the White House, Lincoln and Grant metfor the first time. It was then that the President addressed thedistinguished soldier as

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