History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to AppomattoxTo which is added a record of its organization and a complete rosterFully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . after four oclock before the columncrossed the river at Germanna Ford. Lurid flames lit up thesky along the entire route. Sparsely settled as the countrywas, many deserted houses with their barns and out-buildingsfell victims to the incendiary torch. What prompted such aspirit of vandalism was inexplicable, unless in the frequent
History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to AppomattoxTo which is added a record of its organization and a complete rosterFully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . after four oclock before the columncrossed the river at Germanna Ford. Lurid flames lit up thesky along the entire route. Sparsely settled as the countrywas, many deserted houses with their barns and out-buildingsfell victims to the incendiary torch. What prompted such aspirit of vandalism was inexplicable, unless in the frequent andannoying delays the soldiers were determined to warm them-selves heedless of the character or cost of the fuel. At five oclock, on the 2d of December, the brigade biv-ouacked near Coney Mountain, and at eight oclock moved onagain, halting about noon in the vicinity of Stevensburg. Onthe 3d the uegiment moved at eight oclock, crossing the Rap-pahannock at the railway station, which bears the rivers nameat two, and by four in the afternoon it was back to its oldquarters at Beverly Ford. Again another old Virginia winter was at hand to speed awayin comfortable cantonments, until the blooming, budding springtime should bring with it the battle and the LIEUTENANT HENRY T. PECK.
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