. 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 . tion of the enemy was wholly directedto an effort to repel one of the most brilliant, sweeping, spiritedand successful assaults of the war. Covered by the timber, the assaulting column had beenformed of the 5th Wisconsin and 6th Maine as a double skir-mish line, supported by the 49th and 119th Pennsylvania inlin
. 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 . tion of the enemy was wholly directedto an effort to repel one of the most brilliant, sweeping, spiritedand successful assaults of the war. Covered by the timber, the assaulting column had beenformed of the 5th Wisconsin and 6th Maine as a double skir-mish line, supported by the 49th and 119th Pennsylvania inline of battle. These regiments composed Russells 3d Brigade,1st Division, of the 6th Corps, temporarily commanded byColonel Ellmaker, of the 119th Pennsylvania. General Sedg-wicks assignment to the two corps had advanced GeneralWright to the command of the 6th and General Russell to thedivision. The skirmishers, w^ho had been concealed by the same ditchwhich had astonished the men of the 5th Corps, now the ditch the bald slope rose rather boldly until it termi-nated in the eminence on which were the guns which had soseverely pounded us. To the scolding skirmish fire was now added desperate vol- — 342 —leys from the infantry garrison; canister and grape were sub-. \ ^fe\ GOING INTO ACTION. stituted for shot and shell, and guns and musketry poured their — 343 — deadly charges into the advancing line. It was the work of amoment, but the line suffered severely. The deadly effect ofthe fire materially thinned the ranks of the heroic men whobore the brunt of the assault. Closing the intervals in theskirmish line and the gaps in the line of battle, the advanceswept forward until the abandoned works and the desertedguns were in their possession. But the works were not whollydeserted. An officer of the 6th Maine despatched a littleLouisiana artillery lieutenant, who was lingering after theothers had gone, and was just about to pull the lanyard of ashotted howitzer. D
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