. 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 . k Road ex-pedition of the 27th ofOctober was of greatermagnitudeand more com-prehensive design. It re-sulted in Hancock gal-lantly relieving himselffrom a serious pressurenear Burgesss Tavern;in Crawfords failure in the dense and gloomy timber to reachout to Hancock; in Hancock to feel in to Crawford; in Grif-fi
. 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 . k Road ex-pedition of the 27th ofOctober was of greatermagnitudeand more com-prehensive design. It re-sulted in Hancock gal-lantly relieving himselffrom a serious pressurenear Burgesss Tavern;in Crawfords failure in the dense and gloomy timber to reachout to Hancock; in Hancock to feel in to Crawford; in Grif-fins development of the enemys extreme right; and ultimatelyeverybodys return again to their old, familiar places in the lineof the siege. The column—Greggs cavalry division, the 5th and 9th Corps,and two divisions of the 2d Corps—was from thirty to forty thou-sand strong. The three corps commanders commanded theirrespective corps. The entrenchments were thinned out to askirmish strength. Miless division held the Petersburg frontfrom the Appomattox to Battery 24, half-way between the Je-rusalem Plank Road and the Weldon Railroad. General Parkassigned fifteen hundred men to hold his entrenchments. Gen-eral Warren twenty-five hundred men, under General Baxter,to hold his. (526). — 527 — On the 26th General Griffin resumed command of his di-vision, and General Bartlett and Colonel Herring returned totheir respective stations. The language of General Warrens official report of theseoperations is strikingly suggestive of the loss of trained andexperienced soldiers in the casualties of the late says : The command [5th Corps] started as directed about4 A. M. on the 27th. It consisted, first, of the ist Division, com-manded by Brigadier-General Griffin, 4,707 strong, of were ignorant of the manual, and 2,803 ^^^ never firedoff a musket; second, of the 2d Division, commanded by Brig-adier-General Ayres, 4,704 strong, of which 104 were ignorantof the manual,
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