This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...would not wish to do. Speaking of the battle of Cedar Mountain, you say--on page 271--"I fell into a little difficulty here, by unwittingly asking aloud of the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment, if that was not the organization which hid itself during the fight? The 28th had been ordered, on the morning of Saturday, to occupy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...would not wish to do. Speaking of the battle of Cedar Mountain, you say--on page 271--"I fell into a little difficulty here, by unwittingly asking aloud of the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment, if that was not the organization which hid itself during the fight? The 28th had been ordered, on the morning of Saturday, to occupy Telegraph Mountain--an elevation in the rear of Cedar Mountain--which was used for a Federal signal-post, Nobody having notified the 28th to return to camp, they remained on the mountain, passively witnessing the carnage, and came away in the night." Allow me, for the sake of the thousand brave men, who at that time composed the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment, and for the truth of history, to correct this. As Lieutenant-Colonel, I was then in command of that regiment, consisting of fifteen companies. At about ten or eleven o'clock of the morning of the day of the battle of Cedar Mountain--9th of August, 1862--after the regiment had passed through the town of Culpeper Court House, and was a mile or two to the southward of it, General Banks and staff passed us, going to the front. The General stopped and told me that two regiments of rebels had driven our signal-corps from Thoroughfare Mountain, and that he had specially detailed the "28th" to recapture and hold the mountain, and that he would send me regular orders at once--adding, that the mountain was eight or ten miles west of our road. I thanked the General for the honor he had done the 28th, in thus selecting it himself from his entire corps. (It was not the first or the last honor so paid to it.) The men of the regiment, when told of the detail and its purpose, showed proper pride and eagerness. In an hour or two after this General Geary, our brigade commander, rode up an...
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