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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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mber 8 was clear and cold. The large force in line tramp-ed down the snow, and the marching for all, except for the van-guard, was fairly good. After crossing the South Branch of thePotomac on the ice the expedition reached Petersburg at noon.Company A, under Captain Stahle, was sent out on picket. Themen in camp built fires and sat around them during the night,for the weather was bitter cold. Petersburg was the most forlorn looking town the boys hadyet seen in West Virginia. Everything was in a dilapidated — 51 — condition. All able-bodied men were in the Confederate army.The women, boys and old men gazed reproachfully at the Yanksas they marched through town to the music of the Union. General Cluseret and his men had now gone 42 miles fromNew Creek in a southwesterly direction. They remained incamp at Petersburg for several days. Scouting parties were sentout in search of the enemy. Foraging was supposed to be pro-hibited but officers did not prevent it. A captain saw one of his
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OFTEN THE CASE. men come into camp with a ham on his back and one under hisarm. Some brought in fine chickens and turkeys. The officerseach got a share and everybody was happy. A member of Com-pany K captured some small pigs and roasted them whole. Twoboys of Company I brought in a full grown pig and slaughteredit in camp. Gen. Milroy and staff arrived from New Creek on the nth. Be-fore leaving that camp he ordered Col. Hay to remain at NewCreek, until further orders with general supervision of mattersat that post. On the 12th Cluseret sent the 87th as a scouting party on theFranklin Road. They went 12 miles, finding no enemy, facedabout and returned to Petersburg. — 52 — On the night of the 14th a cavalryman came into camp withthe unwelcome news that Burnside had been defeated at Fred-ericksburg and lost 12,000 men in killed, wounded and missingthe day before. On the 16th the brigade marched to Moorefield, arriving therein a heavy snow storm. It was the prettiest town the boys KA

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