. 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 . me to Captain three companies then fell back to the regiment. The 20th Massachusettssoon after coming up on the left of the 19th, the two regiments advanced, the 19thin line of battle, the 20th in column of companies. The rebel line was met onCaroline street, and the 20th Massachusetts, being in close m
. 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 . me to Captain three companies then fell back to the regiment. The 20th Massachusettssoon after coming up on the left of the 19th, the two regiments advanced, the 19thin line of battle, the 20th in column of companies. The rebel line was met onCaroline street, and the 20th Massachusetts, being in close mass, suffered a fearfulloss of life. Had that regiment been deployed as was the 19th, the loss wouldhave been much less. There is no desire to detract one iota of the measure ofpraise to any who were participants in that gallant action, but only to give a cor-rect version.—Moncena Dunn, Lieutenant-Colonel igth Massachusetts. — Ii8 — a spot designated as ^ White House; but whence it derivedits name is inconceivable, as no settlement was thereabouts andnothing observable but a solitary whitewashed shanty. Mr. Henry K. Jewell, a well-known citizen of Philadelphiaand an acquaintance of many of the officers of the regiment,opportunely appeared during the afternoon. He was con-. 19TH MASSACHUSETTS FIGHTING IN THE STREETS OF FREDERICKSBURG. nected in some civic capacity with the Commissary Depart-ment. The soldier rarely knows much that is reliable, exceptwhat is occurring immediately around him. He gathers hisinformation afterwards when the newspapers reach the Jewell said the cause of the delay in attacking Fredericks-burg was the non-arrival of the pontoons, and also told of General Sumners demand, through General Patrick, on Gen-eral Lee, to surrender the city, and its refusal. The story ofboth circumstances subsequently appeared fully in the news-papers, and is now historically recorded. The delay in for-warding the pontoons has been the frequent subject of severe
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