. 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 . ates; and that I will not divulge anything thatI have seen or heard, or may see or hear, to the prejudice of the ConfederateStates; or engage in any military act whatsoever during the present war untilregularly included in an authorized exchange of prisoners. Sworn before me this 29th day of September, in the ye
. 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 . ates; and that I will not divulge anything thatI have seen or heard, or may see or hear, to the prejudice of the ConfederateStates; or engage in any military act whatsoever during the present war untilregularly included in an authorized exchange of prisoners. Sworn before me this 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord onethousand eight hundred and sixty-two, at Winchester, Virginia. Major W. Kyle. By order of General Robert E. Lee. To one who signed nearly the last, the rebel captain having — 90 — the document remarked: * Why, I find all your men can writetheir own names. We marched out of Winchester at 9 or 10 in the morning,and soon reached the hills to the eastward; thence all the wayto Harpers Ferry we passed through a country very beautifulin a dress of early autumn foliage. We were pushed on ata rapid gait, as our guard was at this time a detachment ofmounted men, but, having no load to carry, we were not inor-dinately fatigued. We bivouacked beside a mountain stream. ■^^m ADJUTANT JAMES P. PEROT. and resumed the march early in the morning, passing throughCharlestown, of John Brown fame. We came to our outposts,a short distance from Harpers Ferry, late in the afternoon. Aflag of truce was sent in and we were promptly transferred tothe Federal commandant of pickets. One personal incident, however, appears to have escapedPeck. While idling away his time as a prisoner, he picked up — 91 — a stray cap of the regiment, abandoned upon the a metal figure 1 from its front, he placed itopposite the regimental number on his own, thus increasing thenumerals to the enormous size of 1118. It was deftly doneand calculated to make even a close observer b
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