. 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 . day in whichthe men, if not actually engaged infighting, had been beyond the soundsof artillery and musketry, and day byday the list of casualties had grownlarger and larger. The line upon which General Granthad determined to fight it out if everyday of all the summer time shouldwitness a battle was crimsoned wi
. 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 . day in whichthe men, if not actually engaged infighting, had been beyond the soundsof artillery and musketry, and day byday the list of casualties had grownlarger and larger. The line upon which General Granthad determined to fight it out if everyday of all the summer time shouldwitness a battle was crimsoned withblood, from the Rapidan to where the deadly miasmas lingeredaround the sluggish waters of the Chickahominy. The sum-mer was lost in autumn, autumn in winter and the winter brokenby spring before the line had come to an end and the battlehad ceased to rage. There was a promise of respite from the daily sounds of car-nage. It was fifty miles by the safest route and surest crossingof the James to the destination hxed upon. The enemy was tobe deceived by a feint toward Richmond from the direction ofWhite Oak Swamp. Should this deception succeed, the ex-posed flank was secure from attack, the march safe from inter-ruption. To the point where the end sought for was to follow (471). — 472 — the wise execution of a skilful conception, the movement fromthe Chickahominy to Petersburg was eminently successful. This end, the seizure of Petersburg, as usual, failed of its ex-pected consummation. Every combination had been made asintended. A great army had stolen quietly from actual con-tact with its adversary, marched fifty miles, crossed two rivers,one a tide-water stream a half mile wide, fifteen fathoms deep,and was within an arms length of the place it purposed seiz-ing before its foe knew the point of intended attack. It wasbut thirty-four miles from Cold Harbor to Petersburg by theroute Lee should travel, but he stood toying with a brigade ofWilsons cavalry and a division of War
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