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LUIUIIIIla Uli II1C tflui itlimaintain their advanced position.On the 13th day of June 1863, the regiment was encamp:d at Falmouth, Va. In the night of that day, leaving a detail of pickets on the river tank, we marched up the Rappahannock, lighting fires at intervals, for ten miles, to United States Ford, to indicate that a large force was taking position At daybreak of the 14th, moiing a mile or so away from the river, a halt was ordered for coffee and then the regiment made a fast and terrible hard march under a blazing sun, overtaking the 2nd Corps a1 Stafford C. H at 2 in the afternoon. The picket detail left behind joined us here. All along that trying route men fell out overcome by heat and exhaustion.At the command “hall”, Capt. Crowley of Co. **8” tell with sun-neA.Man enth;bo Fr pnPe N.guiSelt; VaofCo ChLil ofCc!stroke and for everal days lay inami utance unconscious After all the men had come up the route was *0 resumed On the 17th we were at Ice*N«Obeduau Creek. On the 18th wecommenced guarding Thoroughfare Gap and remained 011 that duty for several da)s.wemee?sttblfor
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Cattaraugus Times
Cattaraugus, New York, US
Fri, Jul 16, 1909
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