. 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 . quick, charge, given by Captain Donaldson and vo-ciferously repeated all along the line, the men at once rushedfrom their conceal-ment and gallantlybreasted the stormof bullets that metthem as they passedout in the open shoutsand cheers from thebrigade greeted theni o V e m e n t, andnerved the
. 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 . quick, charge, given by Captain Donaldson and vo-ciferously repeated all along the line, the men at once rushedfrom their conceal-ment and gallantlybreasted the stormof bullets that metthem as they passedout in the open shoutsand cheers from thebrigade greeted theni o V e m e n t, andnerved the men toan accomplishmentof their , who, asalways, was per-sonally in front ofhis line, with swordslashing the air, andshouting loudly,kept his left continually captain f. a. Donaldson. in the advance. But the centre and right, not to be out-done, were promptly up, and the whole line, without hesitat-ing at the tempting cover the depression invited, and facingthe blaze of musketry that flashed from the timber, had soonpressed the enemys fire from its edge, and were in full occu-pancy of the abandoned line. ONeill and Batchelder, regard-less of their instructions, in the excitement of the venture, thustar so successful, were still urging their men forward. Their. — 195 — loud vociferations were necessarily restrained. Batchelderquickly subsided, but ONeill, in anger or excitement, contin-ually bearing in mind a man in his company, Tom Scout, whomhe especially disliked, incensed at the restraint, continued toshout, Out, Scout, bad luck to yez, why do yees stand mark-ing time ? Go forward, every one of yees. When these officers had been quieted and the point effectu-ally secured for the establishment of the line, as is not unusualwith the best of men there was some competition for ones of large circumference had been each seized bythree or four. As the man in front of the group was the onlyone who could use his rifle, the others were reluctantly f
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