History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to AppomattoxTo which is added a record of its organization and a complete rosterFully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . ad leading north from Dinwiddie Court-House to the WhiteOak Road. General Bartlett established a line of pickets alongGravelly Run crossing this road. He also kept vedettes out onhis right, watching this road and other approaches in the was much after dark when he had made the proper disposi-tions of his troops, and then w
History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to AppomattoxTo which is added a record of its organization and a complete rosterFully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . ad leading north from Dinwiddie Court-House to the WhiteOak Road. General Bartlett established a line of pickets alongGravelly Run crossing this road. He also kept vedettes out onhis right, watching this road and other approaches in the was much after dark when he had made the proper disposi-tions of his troops, and then we began to turn our attention tothe number and extent of the enemys camp-fires. Theyseemed to stretch for miles on the south side of the run, andwe could distinctly hear them chopping, moving wagons andtalking. General Bartletts position close up against the Gravelly Run — 573 — Church Road, nearly down to its crossing of Gravelly Run,directly on the enemys flank, prevented him from communi-cating by that road during the night, and would compel him,if he desired to reinforce his troops at Dinwiddie, to make aconsiderable detour to do so. With Bartlett in this controlling position, with his threeregiments and the corps artillery holding the plank road tow-. BIVOUAC NEAR A HAYSTACK. ards Dinwiddie, it may well be understood how exceedinglyWarren regretted, as in his official report he says he did, thestep shadowed in the confidential despatch received from head-quarters of the Army of the Potomac at in the evening,intimating the probability of contracting the entire lines duringthe night of the 31st. In a previous despatch General Warrenhad already foreshadowed, what actually did occur, that withBartlett where he was, if Sheridan kept on fighting, the — 574 — enemy could not remain between him and Dinwiddie, but mustfall back to Five Forks. As to the confidential communicationshadowing a withdrawal, he remained of the same belief, point-ing out in his reply how Humph
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