. 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 . planted on the bluffs on theother side, occasionally dropped a few shells. Towards nightthey ceased their fire, leaving their guns still in position,unsupported and even without their own battery-men. Itseemed a fitting opportunity to effect a capture, and thecorps-commander called for one hundred volunteers fro
. 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 . planted on the bluffs on theother side, occasionally dropped a few shells. Towards nightthey ceased their fire, leaving their guns still in position,unsupported and even without their own battery-men. Itseemed a fitting opportunity to effect a capture, and thecorps-commander called for one hundred volunteers from eachregiment of the brigade to carry out the design. The response — 53 — from the Ii8th was so hearty, it was more difficult to selectfrom the volunteers than it would have been to order a Ricketts was assigned to the command, and the detach-ment marched off to report to General Griffin, who had beenplaced in charge of the movement. They returned about mid-night, having been eminently successful in the pieces of artillery and some of their appurtenances weretaken, one of which was a gun of a regular battery which hadbeen lost at the First Bull Run. The halt and rest continued through the night, and the daysand doings of Antietam were CORPORAL WILLIAM U GABE. CHAPTER III. SHEPHERDSTOWN. Was there a man dismayed? Theirs not to make reply. Not tho the soldier knew Theirs not to reason why. Some one had blundered; Theirs but to do and die. BLACKFORDS FORD crosses the Potomac just belowthe breast of an old mill-dam. It bears the name of afamily who for several generations occupied the residence andowned the lands in the immediate vicinity. Above the damthree lonely piers marked the site of the bridge that formerlyspanned the stream, and had been the highway leading to Shep-herdstown and Martinsburg. On the Virginia side the fordroad runs along the lower extremity of a high bluff off intothe country, and another extends along the foot of t
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