. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . ement was conducted inmore creditable order. There were a goodly number of prisoners taken during theforward movement. They were disarmed, their accoutrementstaken from them, and directed to find their way to the rear, asthere was no time then to give them other attention. Colonel Gwyn was severely wounded; all the other reg
. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . ement was conducted inmore creditable order. There were a goodly number of prisoners taken during theforward movement. They were disarmed, their accoutrementstaken from them, and directed to find their way to the rear, asthere was no time then to give them other attention. Colonel Gwyn was severely wounded; all the other regi-mental commanders in the brigade were either killed or26 — 402 — wounded. The loss of the i i8th—two enHsted men killed, onecommissioned officer and twenty-six enlisted men wounded, andtwenty-seven enlisted men missing, was not so heavy as in theother regiments. The command of the regiment had now de-volved on Lieutenant-Colonel Charles P. Herring, and so con-tinued almost uninterruptedly until the loss of a leg at Dab-neys Mill, in February, 1865, deprived the regiment of his ser-vices. Crawfords division, now somewhat isolated, was drawn inand posted about a mile southwest of the Lacy House, facingtowards Cheunings,with Wadsworth on his right,and Robinson. RESCUING THE WOUNDED. on the right of Wadsworth filled the space between Crawford andGriffin. The right of the 5th Corps, Griffins division, restedon the turnpike, about three hundred yards from the assault that promised such an advantage was over. Bytwo oclock the troops were all back in the breastworks. Noother demonstration was made by the division until towardsnightfall, when an advance disclosing the enemy in strength inthe same position where he repelled the assault of the morning,the soldiers in the intrenchments rested for the night.* * The following particulars respecting private Cunningham Johnston, of Com-pany E, who was taken prisoner at the first days fight in the Wilderness, are fur-nished by
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