. 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 . - direction,intending to assist the elements in their purpose to stop tlieprogress of the army. Tliey needed no such aid; tlieir pur-pose had been fully accomplished — l62 About noon, abandoned to inaction, the commandants of the118th and 25th New York, who were in most friendly relations,fell to ba
. 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 . - direction,intending to assist the elements in their purpose to stop tlieprogress of the army. Tliey needed no such aid; tlieir pur-pose had been fully accomplished — l62 About noon, abandoned to inaction, the commandants of the118th and 25th New York, who were in most friendly relations,fell to bantering each other as to which of their pioneers couldthe sooner fell a tree in a given direction. The challenge ac-cepted, Daniel Oakley, of Company B of the Ii8th and abroad-shouldered fellow of the 25th were chosen for the com-petition. Oakleys tree was down in the designated directionin less than ten minutes. The New Yorker was far behind,and when his did fall, it dropped entirely away from the direc-tion indicated. The friends of the defeated man bore his dis-comfiture most ungraciously. As Oakley wiped the perspira-tion from his brow one of them deliberately seized the axe withwhich he had done his work, charging he had stolen it. Astruggle at once ensued. This belligerency, encouraged by aplentiful ration of whiskey issued during the morning, soonbecame contagious, and a free to all hand-to-hand conflict re-sulted. Inadvertently two officers we
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