. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . bones ofhis right wound subse-quently required anoperation, removingthe entire bone fromthe elbow to thewrist. The man whofired the shot did soof his own motionand was severelycensured for his con-duct. The next daya man was seen pa-rading the earth-works with a log ofwood across his shoulders. As identifying him
. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . bones ofhis right wound subse-quently required anoperation, removingthe entire bone fromthe elbow to thewrist. The man whofired the shot did soof his own motionand was severelycensured for his con-duct. The next daya man was seen pa-rading the earth-works with a log ofwood across his shoulders. As identifying him as the delin-quent and indicative of the condemnation of his actions, his wounding some. This provoked a return fire upon Daviss front. At that limeLumpkin was walking upon the top of the breastwork, and, being cautioned bysome of his friends against thus exposing himself, after the firing was provoked, re-plied with an oath that the d—d Yankee bullet that was to hit him had not beenmoulded yet. The words had scarcely left llis lips when a bullet crashed throughhis hip, and he fell heavily into the works. That night his leg was amputated atthe hip-joint, and next day he had joined the countless throng gone before. Yours respectfully, D. Lang, Aajntant- SERGEANT DANIEL B. COBB. - 487 — companions loudly extended an invitation to shoot him. Noone seemed disposed to accept it. Vengeance slumbered in thesatisfaction of the execration visited on the creature by his ownassociates. Not so with the 9th Corpss front. Where the picket postsof the 5th Corps stopped and that corps began was a point—the enemy knew it well—for a resumption of hostilities. Noterms or conditions would induce their cessation. Whetherit was a bitterness towards the division of colored troops—apart of the 9th Corps—or whether the lines were so close thateach side feared treachery and a sur{)rise, was never distinctlyunderstood. It was more than likely the danger of a surprise,as when picket
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