. 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 . Rebel vales, the Rebel dales With Rebel trees surrounded;The distant woods, the hills and floods With Rebel echoes sounded. I L E the army re-mained in the vicinityof Culpepper and theRapidan, the signal of-ficers, who had caughtthe key of the Confed-erate code, were in thehabit of interceptingmessages from the
. 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 . Rebel vales, the Rebel dales With Rebel trees surrounded;The distant woods, the hills and floods With Rebel echoes sounded. I L E the army re-mained in the vicinityof Culpepper and theRapidan, the signal of-ficers, who had caughtthe key of the Confed-erate code, were in thehabit of interceptingmessages from the ene-mys signal station onClarks Mountain. These despatches,however interesting oramusing, had neverproved especially in-l -ffl, >^i; _-_ structive until, on theafternoon of the 7th of October, a despatch to General FitzHugh Lee from General J. E. B. Stuart, directing him to drawthree days bacon and hard bread, was caught on the wing, andon being sent forward to head-quarters of the army arousedGeneral Meades attention to the coming movement.* The impending movement referred to at the conclusion of thelast chapter culminated in hostilities at Bristoe, and terminatedwhen Lee found his way back to the Rappahannock again, ♦Walkers History of the Second Army Corps, p. 321.(312). — 313 — tired from a wearisome march, disappointed with his fruitlesserrand. The intentions of General Meade did not seem to activelymanifest themselves within 5th Corps limits until the the tendency of the movement indicated an expectedcavalry demonstration as the objective. Camp was broken in the morning and the march directed to the vicinity ofRaccoon Ford, on the Rapidan. Here the column arrived , after a short march of some four or five miles. It passedthrough a recently abandoned picket line, well back from theFord, which evidently had been occupied for some time. Be-yond it the brigade halted, nearer the river. The skirmisherswere deployed, with instructions to advance
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