. 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 . - 56i - the 3d Brigade, was the same in organization as mentioned irthe preceding chapter. The 5th Corps moved from its camp in the vicinity of Road crossing of Hatchers Run at three oclock oilthe morning of the 29th of March, General Ayress divisionleading, General Griffins following, General Crawfor
. 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 . - 56i - the 3d Brigade, was the same in organization as mentioned irthe preceding chapter. The 5th Corps moved from its camp in the vicinity of Road crossing of Hatchers Run at three oclock oilthe morning of the 29th of March, General Ayress divisionleading, General Griffins following, General Crawford bringingup the rear. The movement did not reach Griffins divisionuntil a time much later than the starting hour, and it was six. FIRE! FIRE! TOTAL LOSS—NO INSURANCE. oclock before its camps were broken. The route east of lay through Arthurs Swamp to the crossing of RowantyCreek at W. Perkinss, where the corps had crossed in point is better known as Monks Neck Bridge. Thencethe movement continued by the old Stage and Vaughan roadsuntil the Chappie was reached, about two miles from DinwiddieCourt-House, a position which the order of march designated asits termination. At a. m. the head of the column had reached36 — S62 — Rowanty Creek, where a few shots were fired by the enemyslookouts, and by eight was at the point of destination. The country through which this movement had been madeand the operations about to follow were to be conducted ** wasof the forest kind common to Virginia, being well watered byswampy streams. The surface is level and the soil clayey andndy, and, where these mix together, like quicksand. Thesoil after the frosts of winter first leave it is very light and
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