. 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 . can stay here as long as any one,and hope he wont relieve me just because I happen to be aboy. The reply was sufficiently assuring and Smith was notdisturbed. It was not an every-day opportunity the enlisted man had tosecure his share of spirits. On a cold, bleak, stormy morninga knot of officers conceived the n
. 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 . can stay here as long as any one,and hope he wont relieve me just because I happen to be aboy. The reply was sufficiently assuring and Smith was notdisturbed. It was not an every-day opportunity the enlisted man had tosecure his share of spirits. On a cold, bleak, stormy morninga knot of officers conceived the notion the day would passmore cheerily with a reasonable supply of the ardent. Theyselected a trusty soldier and, supplying him with nine canteens - 388 - and nine orders on which, only, whisky was allowed to be sold,despatched him in all haste to the commissary. The soldier, thoughtful as well as trusty^ concealed his ownempty canteen underneath his great coat. Arriving at thedepot, he found it in charge of an old acquaintance to whomhe delivered the nine orders and the nine canteens. Twobarrels, with the heads out but full, stood close to each one Billy, the acquaintance, proceeded to fill the by the other was the soldier. As Billy filled, the sol-. THE TRUSTY SOLDIER FILLING HIS OWN CANTEEN. dier dropped his own canteen into the other barrel, withdrawingit when the sound indicated the liquor had reached the mouth,meanwhile engaging Billy in loud and amusing conversation todrown the gurgling sound. Billy meanwhile was so intent onhis own duties and interested in the task, that what had beendone wholly escaped his observation. Settling his score, thesoldier earnestly appealed to Billy for a drink, but Billy con-sistently resisted his appeals, predicting that with such a loadand such temptation he would be drunk enough before night — 389 — anyhow, and that his friends would do him service by not ex-pediting him to the unseemly condition he was bou
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