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 . right and left companies, E and B, were thrown forward,and H, the centre company, moved out in support. As thisdetachment entered the wheat stubble, its appearance provokedfiring. An engagement seemed so imminent that Quarter-master Gardner, who wholly unsuspicious of the situation hadbeen drawn to the front to exchange a
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 . right and left companies, E and B, were thrown forward,and H, the centre company, moved out in support. As thisdetachment entered the wheat stubble, its appearance provokedfiring. An engagement seemed so imminent that Quarter-master Gardner, who wholly unsuspicious of the situation hadbeen drawn to the front to exchange a few social greetings,rapidly rode away, laughingly remarking that such unnecessaryexposure was by no means essential to sustain the dignity ofthe non-combatants. He was by no means peculiar in his views. Officers of hisdepartment frequently very properly sought the seclusion of the — 28l — rear in moments of impending peril. On one occasion a mid-night assault was made on the lines in front of Petersburg. Thebullets whistled about the head-quarters, rattled against the locrSand tore through the canvas. The adjutant-general, rousedfrom his slumbers, bethought himself first of the necessity forhis steed, and yelled loudly to the orderly to saddle his SKIRMISHING AMONG THE WHEAT STACKS. The assault was repulsed, things resumed the usual quietude,and all returned to their slumbers. The next morning thequarter-master, who had not been noticed in the darkness andconfusion the night before, was absent from the mess table, andcontinued absent for several days thereafter, when he reappearedas suddenly as he had departed. Called upon for an explana- — 282 — tion of his absence, he replied that all he distinctly rememberedto have heard during the assault of the night or two before wasthe very penetrating voice of the adjutant-general directing hishorse to be saddled. Concluding from his experience that theonly purpose for a horse on such occasions was to run away,and desir
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