. 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 . hilepursuing his route directly along the plank road to the Court-House. From Crawfords position to Five Forks was aboutfour miles. That eventful April morn broke clear and frosty. The bodiesof dead horses and men indicated considerable severe fightingeven this distance fromx the Court-House. As the commandhalte
. 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 . hilepursuing his route directly along the plank road to the Court-House. From Crawfords position to Five Forks was aboutfour miles. That eventful April morn broke clear and frosty. The bodiesof dead horses and men indicated considerable severe fightingeven this distance fromx the Court-House. As the commandhalted, General Sheridan and his staff emerged from a neigh- — 576 — boring wood. His appearance had not become familiar to thesoldiers of the 5 th Corps, nor had they yet been impressedwith that personal magnetism which roused all fighting menwith whom he came in contact. His famous deeds, however,assured him enthusiastic demonstration. The enemys works at Five Forks covered the White OakRoad, their variations from a straight line following the bendsof the road, and terminating to the eastward with a returnangle about eight hundred yards west of the junction of theGravelly Run Church Road and the White Oak Road. Theirwestern end rested on the junction of a road which diagonally. REBEL BATTLE-FLAG. connects the White Oak Road with the Ford Depot Road aboveC. Youngs field, and their entire front, including their irregu-larities, covered a distance of a mile and three-quarters. Thereturn extending northward to a depth of about three hundredyards was known to exist, but its exact location was supposedto be at, or nearly at, the Gravelly Run Church Road was against this mistaken location that the main infantry at-tack was directed. About two oclock the column was put in motion, andmoving the entire route through timber, came out within amile of Five Forks, in the open country about Moodys. Be- — 577 — tween this small space of open ground and what has passedinto hist
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