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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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essasion of hostilities was agreed upon be-tween Grant and Lee on the evening of the 7th. As soon as itsannouncement was made by a signal gun, all along the lines ofboth armies, soldiers jumped upon the breastworks, sat there andbegan to exchange compliments. The scenes that followed wereunparalleled in the history of the war. Communications betweenmen of the opposing forces were supposed to be prohibited, butthe familiar call: Hello, Yank, got any coffee? was quickly answered by Yes,Johnny,Ill trade you coffee for tobacco if you meet me half way, Then the soldier in blue and the soldier in grey met be-tween the lines, shook hands, exchanged different articles andengaged in conversation. Philadelphia and New York paperswere traded for the Richmond Enquirer,1 or some other South-ern newspaper. One of the last scenes in front of the regimentwas an officer of the 87th drinking to the health of AbrahamLincoln, when a South Carolina captain beside him drank to thehealth of Jefferson Davis.
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— 159 — The order issued by Gen. Meade reads as follows. All corpscommanders are notified that a flag of truce exists to-day, June 7.from 6 to 8 p. m., when they will immediately send out, undera white flag, medical officers with stretcher-bearers to bring inthe dead and wounded. No intercourse of any kind will be heldwith the enemy. The medical officers and attendants will be en-joined not to converse upon any subjects connected with militaryoperations likely to give any information to the enemy. On the following day not a cloud was to be seen in the sky.Kain had fallen during the night. The weather was cool andpleasant. Sharp skirmishing took place in the afternoon, whenCorporal Eaton, of Hopewell township, a member of CompanyG, was mortally wounded, while preparing coffee in the Com-pany Kitchen. He was sent to the hospital at Washington,where he died June 13. At some places the two armies lying behind breastworks,were not more than fifty yards apart on the 10th. No mancould sh

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