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 . early morning,had heaved itself along a distanceof about three miles, when it biv-ouacked in the heavy timber and inthe still drenching deluge; again marked time until the was no improvement onthe 22d; further progress was im-practicable, and the command re-mained fastened to its uncomfortablebivouac. It was quite ev
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 . early morning,had heaved itself along a distanceof about three miles, when it biv-ouacked in the heavy timber and inthe still drenching deluge; again marked time until the was no improvement onthe 22d; further progress was im-practicable, and the command re-mained fastened to its uncomfortablebivouac. It was quite evident theintended operations had been aban-doned. The 5th Corps was to havecrossed at Ellis Ford, familiar fromthe recent reconnoissance. On the * v other side the enemy had erected large boards, on which weredisplayed in letters plainl) discernible taunting phrases. Onone : Burnside stuck in the mud; on another: Yanks, ifyou cant place your pontoons over yourself, we will send youa detail. They had impressed all the ploughs in the neighbor-hood, and could be seen turning the sod in every direction,intending to assist the elements in their purpose to stop theprogress of the army. They needed no such aid; their pur-pose had been fully accomplished — l62 — About noon, abandoned to inaction, the commandants of the118th and 25 th New York, who were in most friendly relations,fell to bantering each other as to which of their pioneers couldthe sooner fell a tree in a given direction. The challenge ac-cepted, Daniel Oakley, of Company B of the 118th and abroad-shouldered fellow of the 25th were chosen for the com-petition. Oakleys tree was down in the designated directionin less than ten minutes. The New Yorker was far behind,and when his did fall, it dropped entirely away from the direc-tion indicated. The friends of the defeated man bore his dis-comfiture most ungraciously. As Oakley wiped the perspira-tion from his brow one of them deliberately seized the axe withw
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