. 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 . JAS. P. HOLT, J — 241 — sibility, so valiantly discharged by Chamberlains 20th Maine,of repelling the overwhelming odds hurled against them andof maintaining alone the extreme left of the defensive line ofthe Union army, and of eventually driving the enemy from theface of Big Round Top. The march was by ro
. 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 . JAS. P. HOLT, J — 241 — sibility, so valiantly discharged by Chamberlains 20th Maine,of repelling the overwhelming odds hurled against them andof maintaining alone the extreme left of the defensive line ofthe Union army, and of eventually driving the enemy from theface of Big Round Top. The march was by roadway, timber skirting the flanks mostof the distance. The battle was raging fearfully. The wickedscreech and angry whistle of shot and shell were persistent andcontinuous. The enemys batteries were served with unusualdetermination and unwonted vigor. The noise, confusion,bustle and excitement of the rear were more than usually in-tensified. Ammunition wagons, parked close together, ambu-lances, jamming and jostling each other, were imperilled andthreatened by the bursting bombs and ricocheting shots. Theharrowing sights of shocking wounds and bandaged limbs, asborne on stretcher, carried in ambulance, or limping in pain,men sought a place of safety, thickened as the column nearedthe scene of
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