. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, 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, with addenda . lthy and distinguished Virginia family, and camefrom the Valley, just throughthe gap. With ninety otherson the plantation, when thewar began, his ** marster,afterwards an officer of theConfederate army, set himfree. He had been promptedto this generous act ratherby the belief that his slaveswould go their own wa
. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, 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, with addenda . lthy and distinguished Virginia family, and camefrom the Valley, just throughthe gap. With ninety otherson the plantation, when thewar began, his ** marster,afterwards an officer of theConfederate army, set himfree. He had been promptedto this generous act ratherby the belief that his slaveswould go their own way any-how, than by the conscious-ness that freedom was theirright. Determined to visithis old home, he braved allthe dangers of the trip andcrossed the mountains to seehis mistress. She receivedhim most graciously and load-ed him with gifts of preciousedibles to bear to those inwhose service he had print-butter, a delicacy unknown to army life, wereespecially acceptable. An instance of Georges unflinching faithfulness occurred atthe battle of Fair Oaks. He was then employed by an officerof the 71st Pennsylvania. As this officer was going into theaction he passed over to George a few valuables and memen-tos, with instructions if he did not return to see that they. GEORGE SLOW. Several pounds of sweei and — I03 — should reach his family. He did not return and for some timeGeorge supposed him dead. Subsequently ascertaining he hadbeen wounded and taken to Philadelphia, George set himselfabout to reach him. Failing to secure transportation, he startedto walk the entire distance from the Peninsula. Over widestreams, with bridges destroyed, he was compelled to covertlysnatch a ferriage. Without supplies, except such as he could cau-tiously gather from friendly negroes, through a country infestedby guerillas and where every white man was his enemy, hefinally accomplished his purpose. To the astonishment of hisgrateful employer, who still lay suffering from his woun
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