News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-03-03

| breastworks in the rear. There at last,
| Hquarely about-faced, they crouched be-
| hind the log barricade to defend it from
| the reverse side Two other regiments had
| held OH in the works during the whole
| time, the Forty fourth New York and the
Sixteenth Michigan, and, seeing the Con
| federates swarming on three sides, the sur
viving officers, upon consultation, decided
to let the men retreat by scattering
Should they attempt to move off in column
they would be attacked by overwhelming
numbers, but in squads and attachments
the confusion of the field and the veil of
the twilight then gathering would enable
the greater part 80 reach the Union lines
The Eighty third lost f6 killed, 81 wounded
and 50 missing. The missing included
some killed and many wounded.
The regiment had respite from fighting
for three days. On the fourth day, after
Gaines Mill, on July 1, it was again called
upon for desperate duty. This was at Nal
vern Hill. When the battle began the
Eighty third was out of the line of fight
ing but bod charge of the Confederates
on a portion of the field nearly made it
necessary to call up supports
When the Eighty-third reached the scene
of danger Union battery that had de-
RhIla0bfY
for some time was moving away The
Pennsylvanians opened on the advancing
enemy and coolly stood their ground under
fire that thinned the ranks rapidly. The
enemy wavered and the battery returned
TO It's position and once more opened fire.
Goaded on by the repulse that followed
the Confederates renewed the charge and
the conflict became bloody in the extreme
The Pennsylvanians fired so rapidly that
their guns became overheated, and the sur
viving soldiers took other ones from the
hands of their dead comrades, of whom
there were plenty. The loss of the Eighty
third was 33 killed outright, us wounded
and IS missing. This number, with the
loss at Gaines Mill, made total in four
days of 1862 out of sd that entered the
fight. The killed and those who died of
wounds was Ill, or one man in every five
The next battle of the Eighty-third was at
Second Bull Run. Aug 81, 1852 1t then
numbered 224 men, and was led by Lieut.
Col. II. S. Campbell In Morells division
of Fitz John Porter's corps, it took part in
the charge upon Stonewal Jackson's posi-
ton at the famous railway cut. The ad-
vance was made at double quick across an
open field, swept by canister and bullets
Lieut. Col. Campbell. the major and can
tain were wounded, 2 lieutenants killed
and n death list of rs rolled up in brief
struggle The total in killed and wounded
was 81 Campbell had been wounded at
the head of the regiment at Malvern Hill.
and SO its commanding officer had been
shot down for the fourth time.
At Antietam the Eighty third escaped
loss; at Fredericksburg it charged up to
the stone wall to the relief of the storming
column, very daring movement that cost |
but few men, however charlottesville |
was another lucky field for the Eighty. |
third, but at Gettysburg it found a place |
of honor at Little Round Top, on July 2.
Col. Strong Vincent, who had succeeded |
Mcl4ane in the colonelcy. led the brigade of
which his regiment formed part, and as
the responsibility of taking it upon
Round Top when that position was about
to fall into the hands of the Confederates.
The Eighty third was posted in the vale
between Round Top and Little Round Top.
a pass selected by the Confederate Gen
Hood to reach the coveted hill. In that
vale took place some of the deadliest fight |