. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . on the walls ofLibby. On the 23d the march was again resumed to the vicinity ofBelle Plain, a landing on the Potomac near the mouth of Po-tomac creek. The gathering of supply and ammunition trains,the current accepted belief that the enemy was in strength aboutFredericksburg, on the other side of the Rappahannock, indi-cated
. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . on the walls ofLibby. On the 23d the march was again resumed to the vicinity ofBelle Plain, a landing on the Potomac near the mouth of Po-tomac creek. The gathering of supply and ammunition trains,the current accepted belief that the enemy was in strength aboutFredericksburg, on the other side of the Rappahannock, indi-cated a purpose to strike him. Stuarts cavalr>^ had developed considerable activity aboutthe rear and flanks of the army, and the-brigade was sent onseveral wearisome, fruitless tramps in the direction of Hartwood — Ill — Church to overhaul him. The camps flitted about for someweeks within a few miles of each other between StonemansSwitch, Potomac creek and Belle Plain. There were manymisgivings of disaster if a battle should be fought, and a con-viction grew that the winter would pass in quiet. The openingguns of Fredericksburg proved the convictions erroneous, andthe result sent the stricken soldiery back to thctir cantonments,their misgivings fully mm CHAPTER V. FREDERICKSBURG. THERE had been frequent preliminary orders to be inreadiness to move immediately, to move at a momentsnotice, to move at once, to move without delay. It was theusual phraseology then so familiar and aroused but little com-ment, as a soldier was about as ready to move at one time asanother. They were accompanied by directions to carry fivedays cooked rations, and the orders, following each other soclosely, kept that supply continually on hand. The thunder of heavy cannonading about four oclock onthe morning of the iith of December, followed promptly bythe general, dissipated the flippant treatment with which thepreliminary directions had been received, and, amid somebustle and confusion,
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