. 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 . ere was dense andtrackless forest. The piercing cry of the whip-poor-will rangthrough the sombre pines and the screech of the owl echoedfrom the tree-tops. Awary foe was concen-trating for a mightystroke, and the wearysoldiers rested,forthelast time for manymonths, without thesound of musketry tobreak their repo
. 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 . ere was dense andtrackless forest. The piercing cry of the whip-poor-will rangthrough the sombre pines and the screech of the owl echoedfrom the tree-tops. Awary foe was concen-trating for a mightystroke, and the wearysoldiers rested,forthelast time for manymonths, without thesound of musketry tobreak their Wilderness, forsuch the region wasjustly named, sud-denly peopled bytwo great warringhosts, was about tomake a battle-his-tory unparalleledfor slaughter, to beread with interest, deep, intense and abiding so long asthe English language shall be spoken. No other idea of the country can be given save that it was aforest apparently without limit, wich clearings so few and theirspace so contracted as scarcely to be considered as breaking thesolemn monotony of tree, chaparral and undergrowth. Here andthere a swale and ridge broke the level, but the rise and dipwere so inappreciable that they would scarcely have beennoticed save when men were seeking cover from the bitter pun-. PONTOON BRIDGE ACROSS THE RAPPAHAN-NOCK RIVER. — 398 ishment of battle. East and west two main highways, theOrange and Fredericksburg plank and turnpike roads, runningparallel with each other, and crossing near Chancellorsville,pass through the entire wilderness. The Brock Road beginson the pike and runs southeast to Spottsylvania Germanna plank road, after crossing the turnpike, ter-minates on the plank road some three miles northeast of Par-ker^s Store. Other plantation roads connected the few settledpatches. On the morning of the 5th Crawfords division led the 5th
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