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himonths In front of Petersburg. I found the regiment was one that could be rell- 00 od upon all the time. You could count!ee on the 245th for good work atony hour! 'yl of the dav or night. j i\i“Yes, I knew Col. ftvoWb of that regl-J tn ment, Intimately, t Remember the Instf an time that I snVv mm. It was during the] br Wllderliess campaign, at Po creek, Mav *», 10th, iSC4. Col. Brown had just made a reconnoisanoe to the front and found the ‘Johnnies.’ As he rode past me lie ex. quietly remarked: ‘You will find It rai warm here in a few minutes,’ and I did. 1 fn a very few minutes the Reba pressed 1 -on our line iti a way that strongly Indi- *ei cated a desire, on their part, that we Tat should leave. Col. Rrown held the ex- Gr treme right of our line that afternoon thi and repulsed their heavy assaults. Han- «iL, cook personally thanked him for his eon- bo duct on that occasion. I never saw him afterwards. He was captured arid I was wounded within the next few days, and, we never met again. He was an excel- ed lent soldier and every Inch a man. 8Ci “ I knew Col, McOreary, of that regi- uu ment, also; n soldier and a gentleman in I bu every respect. I remember the first time Gr I met him. It was on the banks of the ttn Rappahannock river,ln old Virginia,lust | ^eviobiafter the battle of Fredericksburg. Iiro.had been on picket for throe successive I,, days; the weather Intensely cold, thefchlt;aleT*.tiesnow deep; no fires allowed and Mo-Creary came to relieve me. as corps officer of tlie day. I was almost frosten tor’v death, so f turned over the command: to I on him and left him In a whistling wind dii and ft blinding snow storm, trying to din-tlaguish the Rebel picket on the other side of the river.“The lilth regiment I did not know so much about. It was In Kftne’s brigade, Geary’s division, 12th corps. That noble little brigade was the first to meet the onslaught of Johnson’s division at Culp’s Hill, on tho morning of the 3d of July and the regiment made a splendid record on that occasion.mvtraTet,h E lt;[ro erti of i of i
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Shenango Valley News
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Sep 02, 1887
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