. 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 . ogether. At this critical moment, CaptainCourtland Saunders and Lieutenant J. Mora Moss were in-stantly killed, the former witha musket-ball through thehead, and the latter with onethrough the heart. Here, too, Captain Rickettsfell while in the act of dis-charging his pistol. Stagger-in-, he was saved from falli
. 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 . ogether. At this critical moment, CaptainCourtland Saunders and Lieutenant J. Mora Moss were in-stantly killed, the former witha musket-ball through thehead, and the latter with onethrough the heart. Here, too, Captain Rickettsfell while in the act of dis-charging his pistol. Stagger-in-, he was saved from falling;by Private William L. Gabe,who started to assist him tothe rear. Leave me, Gabe, said thecaptain, and save yourself But the brave, generous Gabe would not desist, and againboth were shot down together, Gabe wounded, and this timethe captain killed. As he fell to the ground he cried, in agony : My God ! I am shot by my own men. Not so, said Gabe, but by the * rebs, who are right ontop of us. And then the enemys line swept over them, and the captainlived just long enough to know that he was mistaken. The enemys stragglers, who followed his advancing lines,stooped over the prostrate body of Ricketts and, against theearnest protest of the wounded Gabe, who still zealously clung5. LIEUTENANT J. MORA MOSS. 66 — to the body of his fallen chief, proceeded to rifle his took his watch, diary, money and everything belongingto him, appropriated his sword to their own use, and stole hiscoat, vest and boots. The diary, the short resume of his fewdays service, they conceived of no use, and considerately re-turned it to Gabe. Ricketts was a strong man. His energies were untiring, hissense of duty supreme. He had had a military training; wasskilful as a tactician. What he knew, he knew thoroughly. Hehad fully grasped the principles of his teachings and was aptand ready in their application. His generous sympathy wasevidenced by his readiness to relieve the suffering horses, an
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