. 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 . at a point that had been 6th Corps was to follow him. The night was dark ; the rain poured incessantly. On theslightest break in the column those in advance would disappearentirely, and what was behind would be compelled to haltuntil somebody found them or by some accident they madeconnection with
. 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 . at a point that had been 6th Corps was to follow him. The night was dark ; the rain poured incessantly. On theslightest break in the column those in advance would disappearentirely, and what was behind would be compelled to haltuntil somebody found them or by some accident they madeconnection with the advance. Fires were built along the routeand staff officers and guides posted at intervals to light anddirect the struggling column, cursing and floundering knee- — 425 — deep in mud and mire that stuck with an unyielding it was of no avail; the corps could not make the headwaycalculated as necessary to accomplish the purpose in view atthe end of its journey. Of this march General Humphreys,that eminently reliable historian, who has been so often referredto and who cannot be too frequently quoted or consulted, says : The mud was deep over a large part of the route; the dark-ness was intense, so that literally you could not see your handbefore your HALT IN THE NIGHT MARCH. The head of the column reached its destination at the hourdesignated, but the corps was mad, scattered and broken alongthe entire route. It was neither practicable nor possible toshape it into columns of attack within the hour of darkness tomake the assault effectively at the break of day. The attemptwas consequently abandoned. As the day grew older the army awakened to new sensations,to a buoyancy and invigoration it had not known since it firstburied itself in the wilds of the Wilderness. The fighting had — 426 — not ceased, nor was the battle over; as yet the pickets spokecontentiously with significant frequency and the guns roaredoccasionally in sonorous cadency. But the
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