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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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pot in the mountain, call-ed Little Bear Wallow, where they built a small log cabin, andremained in it three weeks. While here, they made the acquaintance of nineteen deser-ters from the Confederate army. The party of twenty-one per-sons started on a tramp for Ducktown in the mountains of Eas-tern Tennessee. After three nights of marching they wrereattacked by a company of cavalry, when all were killed or takenprisoners, except Captain Dusenberry, of New Jersey, Lieu-tenant Welsh, and Samuel Tinsley, a Confederate deserter- fromSouth Carolina. Three days later they were also captured by alieutenant and twelve men, near Knottly River. They were tak-en back twelve miles to an old farm house, wdiere during- thenight Tinsley escaped. The following evening, Captain Dusen-bury and Lieutenant Welsh got away also. They were now free again, and started together for Cleveland,Tennessee, where they arrived after many exciting experiencesand long marches, on Jan. 25, 1865. Then they went to Chat-
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— 235 — tanooga, Tennessee, and got an order from General Thomas,,in command at that place., to report at Washington, D. C. Lieutenant Welsh was mustered out Feb. 10, 1865, threeyears and six months from the time of his enlistment. Hebrought his friend Tinsley to York with him. The latter re-mained in the North several months, and then returned to hisplantation in South Carolina. Lieutenant Welsh named his only son Tinsley in tenderrecollection of his Southern friend, with whom he had so manvexciting experiences. Captain Dusenbury, his other compan-ion, resides at Newark, New Jersey. The officers and men of the regiment captured June 23. 1864,in the engagement along the Weldon Railroad, an account ofwhich will be found on page 167 in this book, were marchedto the rear and halted at the Yellow House, then the head-quarters of Gen. A. P. Hill, commanding a corps in the Con-federate army. It was near this house that Samuel Baumgard-ner, of Company A, had been seriously wounded, and f

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