. 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 . le for the field as he was invaluable at thedesk. A regiment such as the ii 8th was looked to supply morethan its proportionate share of that very essential need to theconduct of army affairs—a skilled clerical force. Among themost efficient selected for such duty was Albert Haverstick, of H. After the battle of
. 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 . le for the field as he was invaluable at thedesk. A regiment such as the ii 8th was looked to supply morethan its proportionate share of that very essential need to theconduct of army affairs—a skilled clerical force. Among themost efficient selected for such duty was Albert Haverstick, of H. After the battle of Shepherdstown his merits were firstdiscovered by his company commander. Papers of the veryexcellent character, which he prepared, in travelling throughthe different head-quarters, necessarily attracted attention. Aswas invariably the case, the company commander soon lost theservices of his very efficient clerk and some superior securedthem. Haverstick rose to the chief clerkship at the head-quar-ters of the Army of the Potomac, was retained by GeneralMeade after the regiment was mustered out, and after that wasfor a time on duty with the general at Philadelphia, while incommand of the military division of the Atlantic. The brigade remained in position on the west bank of the. LEVI TEAL,Co. C. THS NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASrO^, LfX-^X AND — 559 — run during the 7th, and that night, the weather becoming bitter,stinging cold, all troops operating on the west bank withdrewto the east of Hatchers Run. During the winter in front of Petersburg the 5th Corps morethan any other experienced the inconvenience of frequent mov-ing, and now, relegated to the extreme left of the army, for thethird time housed itself in permanent quarters. About the middle of March Generals Grant and Meade re-viewed the corps. It was quite a gala day; the ladies of thefamilies of the distinguished officers and others graced the oc-casion with their presence. The 118th happened in a promi-nent position, t
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