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Title: History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Wray, William J. (William John), b. 1844
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1861-1864) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: (Philadelphia? : s.n.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ia tendered their services, through Colonel CharlesP. Dare, to the Governor of Pennsylvania, which was accepted.Recruiting began at once on the 18th of April, 1861, at theArsenal, Sixteenth and Filbert streets, Philadelphia, where thePenns3dvania Railroad train sheds now cover, and on April21 St they were mustered into the LTnited States service byMajor C. F. Ruff, United States Army, as the Twenty-thirdPennsylvania Volunteers, with the following officers : Colonel,Charles P. Dare; Lieutenant-Colonel, David B. Birney;Major, George C. Spear ; Adjutant, C. S. Gillingham ; Quarter-master, Edwin Palmer ; Surgeon, Samuel W. Gross ; AssistantSurgeon, C. F. H. Campbell. On the evening of the day it was mustered in the regimentleft for the front. On its arrival at Perryville, Colonel Darewas placed in command at that post. Four companies werestationed at Perryville, two at Havre-de-Grace, two at Elkton,one at Bush River, one at Gunpowder River, two at Aberdeen, PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
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LIEUTKNANl-i.ENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT, ComniandiiiK V. S. Army, iS6i. HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT with intermediate guards along the roads, it being also engaged in guarding the mail from Perryville to Annapolis, Maryland. The post and troops at Elkton were under the command of Major W. T. Sherman, United States Army, later the dis-

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