. 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 . ell besuspended. Those who had the experience of active serviceadvised against such investments. There advice was not onlyunheeded, but it was strongly intimated that it was promptedby motives of parsimony. These mess-chests, though, reallygot farther on their w^ay than those better acquainted hadexpected. It wa
. 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 . ell besuspended. Those who had the experience of active serviceadvised against such investments. There advice was not onlyunheeded, but it was strongly intimated that it was promptedby motives of parsimony. These mess-chests, though, reallygot farther on their w^ay than those better acquainted hadexpected. It was confidently believed that the depot at Wash-ington would .see the last of them. Some, however, reachedFrederick City. There the last survivor was abandoned. Oneby one they had been dropped along the road, and were neverheard of afterwards. On the 8th of September, the command moved to a dry,sloping hill-side, in the vicinity of Fort Cochran. Anotherfour days of similar exacting instruction followed, and thenbegan the sterner calls of duty. All else was soon absorbedin the march, the picket, the battle and bivouac; and so it wentuntil the end had accomplished the full purpose of the soldiersmission, and he had once more found his home in a citizenshiphe had helped make
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