. 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 . , sorely pressed and his battery in imminent danger,followed the movement, withdrawing his pieces by he took position in the angle, almost at the Trostle Housegate, slightly in front and to the right of the regiment, wherehe did damaging execution. He had not moved until theenemy, with a
. 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 . , sorely pressed and his battery in imminent danger,followed the movement, withdrawing his pieces by he took position in the angle, almost at the Trostle Housegate, slightly in front and to the right of the regiment, wherehe did damaging execution. He had not moved until theenemy, with a savage yell, were on the very top of him andhad completely covered both his flanks. Sergeant AugustusLuker, Company E, Corporal DeWitt Rodermel, Company E,James J. Donnelly, Company C, Sergeant Joseph Turner, — 240 — Company F, of the Ii8th, gallantly assisted in keeping backKershaws skirmishers from his left flank, and Bigelow to thisday continues to refer admiringly to their gallant lying behind the stone wall, the same James , who had taken his place with Company E onthe extreme right, attracted attention by the cool, deliberateand accurate manner with which he used a carbine that he hadpicked up at Aldie and carried with him afterward. Donnelly. SERGEANT AUGUSTUS LUKER. had been detailed for orderly duty at regimental head-quartersand, being without musket or equipments, had taken thismethod to provide himself with a weapon, intending to use itto a purpose at the first opportunity. He had exhausted hisammunition and, desiring instructions what he should do formore, from Lieutenant Samuel N. Lewis, who stood in his im-mediate vicinity and had noticed the mans behavior, was di- 247 rected to leap over the wall and remove the cartridge-box andtake the musket from the dead body of a soldier that lay somefifteen or twenty paces to the front. Without hesitation, amida shower of bullets, he executed the direction, slowly removedthe accoutrements, seiz
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