. 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 . ber, and from which he eventually rescued himself from mostperilous surroundings. The White Oak Road was the shortestroute of the enemys to Five Forks, a point which once secured — 566 — must ultimately force the enemys abandonment of his Peters-burg entrenchments. On the White Oak Road his permanentworks termin
. 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 . ber, and from which he eventually rescued himself from mostperilous surroundings. The White Oak Road was the shortestroute of the enemys to Five Forks, a point which once secured — 566 — must ultimately force the enemys abandonment of his Peters-burg entrenchments. On the White Oak Road his permanentworks terminated, just to the westward of Burgess Mills, andto hold it there and beyond against the threatening attitude ofthe 5th Corps and the cavalry, he was bending all his Run to the north of Armstrongs Mill changes direc-tion and courses westerly. The pickets advanced some distance beyond the line of battle. From the picket lineit was discovered,General Warren per-sonally making theobservation, that theenemys breastworkswere well locatedand constructed anddefended by infantryand artillery. Treesprevented their beingseen at all timber had beenwell slashed to giveeffect to the fire, andwhere the fallen treesdid not obstruct theground abatis hadbeen laid. During these operations it rained hard. Sergeant Stotensburg, as usual, pressing ahead saw an op-portunity to pick up a few prisoners, and dashing out in frontof the advancing pickets brought in four men, who evidentlyhad not expected to be so actively pursued. General Ayres, while General Griffin was operating in frontof Burgess Mills, had moved out to the northwestward, to aposition where he could see the White Oak Road, and Gen-eral Warren was quite anxious Humphreys should take care — 56; — of Griffins front, that he might use Griffin to co-operate withAyres and Crawford. About four oclock Wilcoxs division made a demonstrationagainst Griffins front but was easily driven back. A few pris-oners fe
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