Identifier: historyoftwentyt00wray (find matches)
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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he rose up to take in the next pot, slipped his canteen out, replacing it with the one with water and feeling good over his win, Harry pulled the canteen up to take another smile, and when he found it was water, it broke him and the game up. While at Johnson's Island, the boys of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania who did not re-enlist decided to give the veterans a reception upon their rejoining the regiment from fur-lough. As there were lots of wild geese on the lake. Sergeant Bill Green and Johnnie Kelly started out with a pocket full of slugs to the feeding grounds while Trotter Boyle and Davy Colville and others made preparadons to have a good roast.When the hunters returned without the fowl, it was explained that when Green started up the birds, they came with such a sudden whirl directly over them that it kept Green busy to keep his feet on the slippery ice, while Kelly with the gun loaded, slipped and fell and lying on his back, blazed away.How he ever missed them was a puzzler. Some of the boys
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158 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT charged Green with loading the gun with beans in place of slugs; perhaps the geese flew too high before Kelly could geta shot at them; however there were other things to provide and one of the best evenings in edibles and enjoyment was had at the reception of the boys who had re-enlisted for three more years. George Blank, Company B and William Thomas, Company C both drummer boys of the Twenty-third were captured near Stone House Mountain in September, 1863, by Mosby, while outside the lines foraging ; they were sent to various rebel prisons and finally reached Danville. At this place a hole was cut in the stockade and Thomas, with Harlan S. Howard, Third Wisconsin Battery, and Samuel Street, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, started for the North. They were about a month getting into our lines, coming in at Fayetteville, West Virginia; they had changed clothes with the contrabands, so they looked like Johnnies. Our troops took good care of them. Thomas reached

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