. 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 . tlers—The Famous K:Sheridan—General Chamberlain—RepcMicroscopic Rations—Confederate ArrShepherdstown! —The Foolish Wise^Gathering Arms and Stores—SeasonejLine—Empty Hopes and Stomachs—AJculty with Colored Troops—Hodges CHAPTElSOUTHERN Confederate Sanitary Commission—Close 1script—Conscience and Corn Cakes—^Ratio


. 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 . tlers—The Famous K:Sheridan—General Chamberlain—RepcMicroscopic Rations—Confederate ArrShepherdstown! —The Foolish Wise^Gathering Arms and Stores—SeasonejLine—Empty Hopes and Stomachs—AJculty with Colored Troops—Hodges CHAPTElSOUTHERN Confederate Sanitary Commission—Close 1script—Conscience and Corn Cakes—^Rations—The Stockade—Cook House-|Dead Line—Cleanliness—Soap—Tentways—Vendors—Running the Blockad«Raiders—Punishment of Thieves-Rations—Sickness—Doctors Call—Me|ons—Burial Ground—Increase of Prisoi—Beans and Bugs—Fourth of July—SI , —Death of FuUerton—Removal of Prisshear—Florence—A Lost Dog—Christi—Now or Never—Our Flag . APPE:^ Laurel Hill and Sheridans Raid—A FewHennings Prison Experience—Religiojtory of the Army Hospital and its W(|Appetite of an Army Mule—A StrangeThirteenth, 1865—Who was the Color-Lee—Flag of Truce at Appomattox- ROSTER Survivors Association, ii8th Corn Exchange Regiment, P. V. 744. THE NEWPUBLIC TlLUaNfOUNUATlONJ HISTORY 11 8th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION—CAMP UNION—FORTS ALBANY AND COCHRAN. And blessed is a country with stout hearts like these; The tramp of her armies is swelling the rush to her rescue, their livesfreely give—Twere better to die than in bondage to live. promising results anticipated fromthe majestic advance of the splen-didly appointed Potomac Army fromYorktown to the Chickahominy in thespring of 1862 were speedily had tested the capacityof the Union soldiery for vigorous as-sault, while Fair Oaks and Seven Pineswere assurances of ability for indomita-ble resistance. Then for a month therewas ominous q


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