. 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 . to have it supplied withgood arms before it left Washington. The arms were reported almost worth-less and Gen. Halleck assured me that they should be replaced before though informed of the dangfcr of sending a regiment with such defectivearms to a battle fiddliest they should meet with the disaster t
. 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 . to have it supplied withgood arms before it left Washington. The arms were reported almost worth-less and Gen. Halleck assured me that they should be replaced before though informed of the dangfcr of sending a regiment with such defectivearms to a battle fiddliest they should meet with the disaster they did—Sec-retary Stanton persisted in forcing them forward—though three hours wouldhave supplied the arms—and Gen. Halleck yielded. I did not know thatthe supply had not been furnished till after the battle. The story of those few days is very interesting, and also much of what Ihave read, and I think you all deserve great credit for giving it to the regiment and the State deserved it. It did good service—the countryis profiting by it—and its members, if any are in need, should not be sufferers,by neglect of government. Yours truly, FiTZ John Porter. To J. L. Smith, Philadelphia. ^6h THE NEW YORKPUBUC LIBRARY ASrOK. LENOX AND TILDSN FOUNDATIONS R L. GEORGE SYKES, Major-General of Volunteers U. S. Army, Nov. 2Q, 1862, to Jan. 15, 1866. Died Feb. 8. 1880. From a photograph by Brady,taken in 1864. — 57 — Autumn radiance. Dew glistened on grass and leaf, and theold Potomac, calm and placid as if it had never known strife,visible for a considerable distance, swept on its course landscape, varied with its valley and hillside, its meadowsand woodlands, sprinkled with barn, house and garden, waspeacefully picturesque in the refreshing sunlight of a softSeptember morning. There were no harbingers that by noon-day the regiment should suffer casualties, severer for a singlecombat than probably evor fell to the lot of soldiers, even inthe he
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