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 . side to Jericho Bridge, and Warren to JerichoMills. Wright followed Warren. Jericho Mills is four mileswest of Jericho Bridge. Ewell and Longstreet had arrived at Hanover Junction, somenineteen miles distant from our advance, the night of the 22d,and on the 23d Hill was pressing to join them. Warren arrived at Mount Carmel Church
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 . side to Jericho Bridge, and Warren to JerichoMills. Wright followed Warren. Jericho Mills is four mileswest of Jericho Bridge. Ewell and Longstreet had arrived at Hanover Junction, somenineteen miles distant from our advance, the night of the 22d,and on the 23d Hill was pressing to join them. Warren arrived at Mount Carmel Church at 11 a. m., andfrom that point moved to Jericho Mills, on the North Anna,about three miles distant, Rosser keeping in his front to thevicinity of the river. Bartletts brigade waded the river, encountering a few of theenemys pickets on the opposite bank, and secured a lodgementto cover the laying of the pontoons. The banks of the streamwere high and precipitous and the road rough, consisting of aseries of rocky steps. — 441 — The line advanced sufficiently to permit deployments of thetroops to follow, and pickets were thrown out to the edge of awood some distance beyond the bank. A feeling of fanciedsecurity had prompted all the dog-robbers, pot-wrestlers. NORTH ANNA. and coffee-coolers to keep well closed up with the vast array of essentials, bearing designations so pertinentto their calling, so useful and necessary in the domestic econo-mies of army life, with due consideration for personal safety,with weighty convictions that their loss would be irreparable, — 442 — never ventured upon the hither bank of a stream until fur-nished with the most reliable assurance that the enemy hadvanished from the vicinity beyond all range possible for an en-counter. It was a sense of fancied security that prompted these foragingspoilsmen, ready for booty when no dangers attended its ac-quisition, to scatter in every direction to seize the rich yieldsthe prolific indicati
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