Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers (electronic resource) (1885) (14777763325)

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Title: Concise history of the camp and field life of the 122d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers (electronic resource)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Sprenger, George F
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 122nd (1862-1863)
Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : New Era Steam Book Print
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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to find that aheavy frost had fallen upon and about us. Having soonmade away with our scanty breakfast, the order to fall in ! was next received; when, about 9 oclock, a. m., we againrecrossed the pontoon bridge, and were once more in ourformer position, to the right of the town, under the bank ofthe river, where a cavalry picket had been stationed duringthe night. We were not long there, however, before anotherorder was brought for a detail of 100 men from the left ofour Regiment, which took both Companies K and I, whowere marched to the rear and left, thence up into the town,close in toward the houses to avoid detection ; thence to thenorth of the city to Fauquier street, where we relieved thelyth Massachusetts \ olunteers, who, as hereinbefore noted,had borne the first brunt of the siege and had suffered soseverely in killed and wounded whilst assisting to la) thepontoon bridges. We were then deployed in line, in rear ofa garden picket fence, along a street running north and south,
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122d Regiment Pcnii a Volunteers. 143 and were just in position, when the rebel artillery espied us,and opened their batteries upon us, momentarily, as occa-sions offered. However, Company K being on the extremeright and along the open interval, laid low, allowing the shotand shell to go over them. Hazardous Posts and Narrow Escapes. The corner of Fauquier street formed the extreme right ofour position, at which point were located, in front of a one-story frame house, Sergeant G. F Sprenger, CorporalsHarry Hartley, George Waller and George Dorwart,who were scarcely stationed before a shot fell close by, carry-ing away part of the picket-fence and almost taking with itJakey Miller, as well as several others who then werestationed on the left half of the Company. But an instantafterward, when a shell was sent crashing through the yellowframe house directly above the heads of George Wallerand George Dorwart; after which, directly, another struckit higher up, followed by two others in qui

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