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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
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— iig — Hancocks Corps preceded by Greggs cavalry, crossed theriver at Elys Ford. Warrens Corps, with Wilsons cavalry inthe advance, crossed on pontoons six miles farther up the streamat Germanna Ford, closely followed by the Sixth Corps,1 underSedgwick. The ist Brigade of Ricketts division, of which the 87th Regi-ment formed a part, brought up the rear. Reveille was beat at3 a. m., roll called, breakfast finished, and blankets rolled up.
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The march began at4:30 a. m. The daywas hot and theroads dusty. Someof the boys castaside their blanketson the weary march. The distance fromthe camp to theRapidan was fifteenmiles. The regimentcrossed a pontoonbridge at 5 p. m. andbivouacked for thenight about one halfmile beyond the ford around some earthwork that had beenthrown up by the enemy. 120 The successful pas-sage of the armyacross the Rapidan,without resistance,wasa source of congratu-lation to Grant andMeade. Not only thearmy, but the im-mense train of 4,000wagons, was now onthe south side of thestream. This, saysGrant, I regarded asa great success,and itremoved from mymind the most seriousapprehension I hadentertained, that ofcrossing the river in the face of an active, well-appointed, andably commanded army. The army of Northern Virginia, under Lee, lying south of theRapidan, was divided into three corps, commanded by Hill,Ewell and Longstreet, with Stuart commanding the Cavalry. Itwas behind entrenchments, extending a

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