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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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on, toproceed to Franklin, with four days rations for themselves andsupplies for the 9th West Virginia Regiment whose men werereported to be without rations for two days. That region had noUnion sympathizers and much of the country had been laid waste. They left on Sunda> morning, November 9, went ten milesthrough what was termed in those days a regular secesh coun-try, and found quarters for the first night in barracks built byImbodens men. They captured a lot of fine turkeys, chickensand geese and at once began to dress the fowls for supper. Oth-ers were engaged in killing sheep and calves for the same pur- — 42 — pose, while still others came into camp with butter by the firkinand honey by the box. An enthusiastic forager was comingwith a hive of bees. The weather had become warm that day,and the busy little bees wanted to know what kind of an excur-sion they were going on; so they found their way out of the hiveand began to sting their captor in real earnest. He dropped the
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A BIG ROOSTER FOR MAJOR BUEHLER. hive, and hastened into camp with a hundred bees followingto pay their respects to him and his comrades.Major Buehler looked up and said: The boy didnt seem to know his gun was loaded. Wonder ifhe could run that fast if the Rebels were after him. Soon the savory smell of roast lamb, fried veal in butter, ten-der chicken, and delicious young turkey, filled every nook andcorner of the camp. — 43 — Well call this Camp Good, said the funny man of Com-pany C, for even the old goose that I cooked is tender, hecontinued. The Major looked a little ser-ious, but thought to himself: This is the first opportunity fora long while that the boys havehad to prepare such a meal. Thisis a time of war and we arenot influenced much by sentimentthese days. The people fromwhom these fowls were taken areour enemies. But he looked alittle more puzzled than usual. After a sound refreshing sleep,bow-legged Harry Fink, the piedpiper, of Company A, was sentaround the camp to

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