. 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 . ons, and most of thedetachment were ultimately shaped into tolerably good, andsome became excellent soldiers. Among the drafted men, so consistent in their conscientious 293 — convictions against fighting that they would not purchase sub-stitutes to fight for them, were five Pennsylvania were submis
. 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 . ons, and most of thedetachment were ultimately shaped into tolerably good, andsome became excellent soldiers. Among the drafted men, so consistent in their conscientious 293 — convictions against fighting that they would not purchase sub-stitutes to fight for them, were five Pennsylvania were submissive and obedient, ready in the discharge ofevery duty, but still, consistent in their convictions, positivelyrefiased to bear arms. Lacking nothing in courage or en-durance, they expressed entire willingness to march and go intobattle, but utterly declined to be instructed in the use of the musket. Force andpersuasion were of noavail, and the reasonsfor their refusal ap-pearing to be whollyin their consciences,the War Departmentultimately orderedtheir discharge. ONeill and Handwere directed to sim-ply deliver the re-cruits placed in theirkeeping, and then re-turn to the rendez-vous at were not slowin responding to thelatter part of theirjourney on the night. SERGEANT ALFRED MACQUEEN. instructions, and commenced their returnof the day of their arrival. A high wind and heavy rain demolished all the arbors erectedto break the intense heat. They were no longer needed, how-ever, as an early daylight move and short march brought theregiment to another camping ground near Beverly Ford, withinhalf a mile of the Rappahannock. Here the regiment remainedfor a considerable time. The entire month of August was a season of intense, ener-vating heat, breeding swarms of pestering insects and con- — 294 — ducive, in the lowlands along the river bottom, to frequentmalarial disorders. To counteract these unhealthy surround-ings there were occasional issues of quinine stee
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