. 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 . he still kept slowly and cautiously in motion, all thewhile descending a sharp declivity. At its foot was a bog be-yond which evidently was the corresponding rise to the descentwhich he had been following. Everything hidden in the im-penetrable gloom, he judged this rise to be the enemys line,and concluded, but
. 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 . he still kept slowly and cautiously in motion, all thewhile descending a sharp declivity. At its foot was a bog be-yond which evidently was the corresponding rise to the descentwhich he had been following. Everything hidden in the im-penetrable gloom, he judged this rise to be the enemys line,and concluded, but with no warrant except supposition, that itwas probably the eminence Sykes had taken and from whichhe had so summarily withdrawn. Confronted by this obstruc-tion so near the enemy and with nothing yet to indicate hecould accomplish his mission, he ventured in guarded tones tocall Where is the picket line ? Which picket line ? anxiouslyresponded a familiar voice. To assure himself he had notmistaken it, the cautious exclamation, Is that you, Crocker? brought the welcome Yes, and pushing through the junglea few feet they were together. Why he had come—it wasalmost anticipated—was quickly told. The delicate man-CEuvring necessary to assemble the detail without arousing — I8l. attention was slowly and successfully accomplished. Theywere all assembled at the point designated, and with theirmarch directed by the sameofficer whohad borne the in-structions reached the com-mand about two oclock inthe morning, still in thesame position in which hehad left it. The whole forcewas then immediately re-tired, and after a toilsomemarch, wearisome from themany exciting changes ofthe day, bivouacked to-wards daylight somewhereon the road leading toBankss Ford. All these vacillating and apparently mysterious movements,with the knowledge of the further abandonment of the emi-nence, the occupation of which the soldiers who knew of it stillfelt assured was essential to success, had in no way r
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