. 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 . ps, and Hillsforce of the freshest troops were; it developed the Confederatearmy as back from the river, and trending down toward HarpersFerry, and not up the river toward Williamsport; Pennsylvaniawas relatively safe from attempted invasion by Lees army forthe time, and eastern Maryland, by Harpers Ferry, was t
. 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 . ps, and Hillsforce of the freshest troops were; it developed the Confederatearmy as back from the river, and trending down toward HarpersFerry, and not up the river toward Williamsport; Pennsylvaniawas relatively safe from attempted invasion by Lees army forthe time, and eastern Maryland, by Harpers Ferry, was theonly part exposed north of the Potomac. Various reconnaissances in force followed that of September20th, which eventuated in the battle of Shepherdstown and wasthe first and most daring of them all. It was well worth allits cost, and among its unexpected results was the fact thatinstantaneously the ii8th Pennsylvania, the Corn ExchangeRegiment, was flashed into that fiercely Hghted flame of recog-nition, which ever after gave it a conspicuous place on the rollof the fighting regiments of the army, and which it neverlost, until it closed its battle-days in Sheridans front, barredLees final retreat, and saw take place, under its own eyes^ thesurrender at Appomattox. CHAPTER IV,. FROM SHEPHERDSTOWN TO FREDERICKSBURG. And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. HE same ground near BlackfordsFord, from which the regimentmoved to the fight at Shepherds-town on the 20th, was its homeuntil the latter part of October,when the entire army began another advance into Virginia. The camp was in the fringe oftimber; a slightly sloping knollrose in its front, separating itfrom the empty canal and thePotomac. This knoll was mannedall along its crest by Parrott guns in battery, concealed inthe timber; there were no artillerymen with them, and the onlysupport in the immediate neighborhood was the guns were evidently planted to command
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