. 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 . mis-sion of the Army of Northern Virginia was to liberate the citi-zens of Maryland from the thraldom of the Union of the States,and conclusive that, in this locality at least, there was no sym-pathy with such a purpose. The town is a pretty little hamlet of some thousand people,beautifully located a few miles f
. 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 . mis-sion of the Army of Northern Virginia was to liberate the citi-zens of Maryland from the thraldom of the Union of the States,and conclusive that, in this locality at least, there was no sym-pathy with such a purpose. The town is a pretty little hamlet of some thousand people,beautifully located a few miles from the Potomac, overlookingthe Antietam. It contained its proper complement of stores — 52 — and churches, but all identity of the purposes for which thesebuildings had been used was lost; everything had beenabsorbed for the moment in one universal hospital. Housesand out-buildings were filled, and lawns and gardens coveredwith the Confederate wounded. Nor were these suffering menthe only reminder of the great battle that had ended. Fewwere the houses that had not been pierced by solid shotor shell. One of the inhabitants said that he and his familywere about to sit down at the dinner-table, when a solid shotcrashed through the wall, and, falling on the table, spoiled the. .f^M^k^i£^^l^-Mk^^^ And when the day was done,Full many a corpse lay, ghastly pale, beneath the setting sun. dinner and the dishes, and, he added, quaintly, also ourappetites. Passing beyond the town the regiment halted before noonnear the Potomac, in the vicinity of Blackfords Ford. A fringeof timber hid the river and concealed the troops from theenemy, who, with his batteries 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
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