. 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 . manifest that General Lee was in fact moving on Warrenton, torequire the Union army to fall back behind the Rappahannock,which was accomplished during the nth. To resume the direct narrative. The skirmishers and pioneershaving rejoined the brigade at , it moved back again overthe four or five miles it marche
. 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 . manifest that General Lee was in fact moving on Warrenton, torequire the Union army to fall back behind the Rappahannock,which was accomplished during the nth. To resume the direct narrative. The skirmishers and pioneershaving rejoined the brigade at , it moved back again overthe four or five miles it marched in the morning, and halted atits old camp. There, under orders to move at a moments no-tice, with trains hitched ready for immediate start, the troops - 3i6 - secured that indefinite and uncertain rest that follows an attemptat repose while under orders to march. At six oclock on the morning of the i ith there was a hurrieddeparture. The column passed through Culpepper. The gaitmaintained was more than usually rapid, and after a continuedstretch of ten miles, made without a rest, the column reachedthe neighborhood of Brandy Station. Here the troops de-ployed and faced to the rear, remaining in line of battle to sup-port the retiring cavalry and protect the withdrawing TRAINS TO THE REAR. Down through the ranks by this time it came to be pretty wellunderstood that this movement comprehended an avoidance ofsomething initiated by the enemy, and visions of Bull Run,Manassas, Thoroughfare Gap, Popes retreat, and other namesand localities suggestive of disaster were so rife in the imagi-nation as to eventually culminate in audible and ominous ex-pression. The country about Brandy Station is well suited for observa-tion. There was considerable artillery practice at long range, — 31/ — principally from the enemy, who were closely pressing our re-tiring squadrons. The infantry remained in support, occu-pying rifle-pits that had been constructed before. Over theplain in fr
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