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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 27: the Gettysburg Campaign. (search)
soldiers food and water. The sun sank below the horizon, evening breezes took the place of his hot breath, bushes by the wayside grew shadowy and finally faded into dark, irregular masses, taking on fantastic and wierd forms as the night settled over the land. The stars came out one by one in a moonless sky, but still there was the incessant tramp, tramp, tramp as the line moved forward without a halt. The Second Corps, as the result of this forced march was nicknamed Hancock's Night-Walkers. In silence and with aching bones, they struggled along until nine o'clock that evening when they halted in the streets of Uniontown, 32 miles from Monocacy Junction from whence they had started in the morning. The men dropped where they halted and instantly were asleep. None of the companies had full ranks and stragglers from all of them came gradually in during the night. The regimental return made out at Uniontown reads as follows: Col. Devereux, promoted from Lieutenant Colonel
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
.............. 323, 329 Halleck, Major General,..............................114, 115 Ham, George B.,...................................................... 249 Ham, George P., ...................................................... 262 Hamilton, William, ................................................... 291 Hampton, Va.,.................................................... 55, 118 Hancock, General, 177, 178, 209, 213, 215, 223, 225, 226, 229, 230, 239, 242, 321, 357 Hancock's Night Walkers. ........................................ 222 Haney, William...................................................... 331 Hapgood, J. ........................................................ 108 Hapgood, Oliver, ...................................................... 107 Hardy, Patrick, ...................................................... 152 Harper's Ferry, ................................................51, 150, 256 Harper, Robert,..................................................