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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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scarce. What we use isgotten by digging holes in the sandy soil and water settles inthese holes on the sub-soil. This must supply our wants dur-ing the long and hot hours of the day. We had a fine showerto-day. The first rainfall for a long time here. On June 28 wemoved our camp to a hill, which is beautifully shaded by a pineforest. The siege of Petersburg has begun. Our guns are con-tinually playing on the rebel works. A large number of contra-band negroes came into our lines. They are bound for theNorth. This is the first time we pitched our tents since wecrossed the Rapidan. June 29 our corps was reviewed by General Wright. Wethen broke camp, and by a very circuitous route of eight milesmarched to Reams Station, on Weldon Railroad. It was badmarching and we had no water fit to drink. June 30, our regi-ment and the 14th New Jersey tore up the railroad for threemiles. We burned the ties and bent the rails. The cavalry setfire to the Station house, then went farther up and destroyed
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— 171 — several bridges. We fell back to the Jerusalem Plank Road at5 p. m., when the men, tired and weary, fell asleep under thetrees. We beat reveille at 5 a. m., and 100 men went on picket-The corps moved to our former position, behind the rifle pits,five miles from Petersburg. July 3 is as dusty as before theshower. The weather is awful hot. A detail of 100 men wentout on picket. The 9th Corps on our right is engaged. July 4 was ushered in with terrific booming of cannon and rattleof musketry. At the dawn of day all the bands belonging to the6th Corps were placed in line in full view of the different bri-gades. They played in turn the different National airs. Themusic was a fitting accompaniment to the deep-toned reverber-ations of nearly a hundred guns, engaged in a fierce artilleryduel with the enemys heavy guns behind the defenses of Pet-ersburg. A ration of whiskey, with quinine, was received byevery man of the regiment and the entire corps on July 5. Thewater was bad and

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