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Title: History of the One hundred and fiftieth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, Second regiment, Bucktail brigade (electronic resource)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Chamberlin, Thomas, 1838-
Subjects: Pennsylvania Infantry. 150th Regt., 1862-1865
Publisher: Philadelphia : F. McManus, jr. & co., printers
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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ed a distance of twenty miles. The march was very trying on account of the intense heat,the dust, and want of water, the column sometimes makingfour or five miles without encountering even a mud-puddlefrom which to allay its thirst. On the following morning, be-fore day, the Third Corps took the lead, and the First, fallingin behind it, moved rapidly towards Bealeton, passing detach-ments of the Fifth Corps (which at that time was guarding thefords on the Rappahannock) and reaching its destination latein the afternoon. The 150th acted as rear-guard of the corps,bringing up the stragglers,-—a task which gave it plenty to do,but enabled it to set its own pace and come in with less fatiguethan on the previous day The distance was about fourteenmiles. Bealeton Station is about four miles from the Rappahannock,and consisted then of a couple of deserted houses. Around itis a fine farming country, which for a year or two had beenuntouched by the plough and was absolutely denuded of fences.
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Cui.uu Skui-kaxt S.UllKI. PK 11TER.(Killed at (.Icttysburg. July i, 1803.) PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS 109 The frame houses had been loop-holed and strengthened withthick planks by the railroad guards, rendering them admirablefor defence. On the 14th the First Corps started for Manassas Junction,and made one of the most tortuous and torturing marches onrecord. The heat of the sun was withering. Not a breath ofair stirred the leaves, the dust rose like a white cloud, powder-ing the hair and clothes of the troops and almost stifling them;and, to add to the general discomfort, not a drop of water wasto be had at times for a distance of five miles. This can beeasily understood when it is stated that no rain had fallen sincethe 5th of May. No man was allowed to fall out of ranks,under any pretext, without a pass from his company com-mander, approved by the regimental surgeon. Those who didwere driven in again by the field-officer at the rear of eachregiment, or gobbled up by the rear-guard and

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