. 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 . OFTEN SEEN AFTER AHARD MARCH. CHAPTER MINE RUN. The best laid schemes o mice and men,Gang aft agley. IXE RUN is an in-considerable streamflowing northwardand empt\ing intothe Rapidan at Mit-chells Ford. Itsprecipitous, rocky,wooded banks arethemselves formid-able, and strength-ened, as its left bankwas, by
. 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 . OFTEN SEEN AFTER AHARD MARCH. CHAPTER MINE RUN. The best laid schemes o mice and men,Gang aft agley. IXE RUN is an in-considerable streamflowing northwardand empt\ing intothe Rapidan at Mit-chells Ford. Itsprecipitous, rocky,wooded banks arethemselves formid-able, and strength-ened, as its left bankwas, by strong earth-works, the dislodgement of the enemy by direct assault fromthat position, in a season of biting cold, long nights and shortdays, was soon determined to be wholly impracticable exceptat a loss disproportionate to the results expected. The enemys works faced east and extended to the left rested near the Rapidan; his right in the vicinity* ofHope Church. It was designed to draw him into action beforehe was secure in the occupancy of this position. With this inview, the army was divided into three columns, the first orright column, consisting of the 3d (French) and 6th Corps(Sedgwick), the former leading, was to cross the Rapidan atJacobs Mill Ford; the second or centre column, consisting ofthe 2d
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