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 . ponses, repliedthat they belonged to Colonel Johnsons 25th New York, andgave, as the reason for straggling, that the colonel had led offon the return march at such a rapid rate that it was impossibleto keep up with him, and that weary and worn they had reluct-antly fallen out, and were now making haste to rejoin their com-mand. Fi
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 . ponses, repliedthat they belonged to Colonel Johnsons 25th New York, andgave, as the reason for straggling, that the colonel had led offon the return march at such a rapid rate that it was impossibleto keep up with him, and that weary and worn they had reluct-antly fallen out, and were now making haste to rejoin their com-mand. Fictitious names were furnished the general, who leftwith the remark that he would take pains to have GeneralGriffin informed of the utter lack of discipline existing in his25th New York Regiment. Whether Colonel Johnson everheard of the affair was never ascertained; probably not, as theparty, who themselves kept the matter concealed, never heardthat he did. The 25th New York, too, had been purposelyselected, as it was a two-years regiment, with its term aboutexpiring, which made it less likely that the occurrence, withtroops so soon to leave the service, would ever be seriouslyinquired into. The half-dozen officers were not all who fell out by the way. — 207. ;• .... — 208 — As the regiment came to a piece of woods that seemed toinvite by its shelter and material for fires, nearly all quietly leftthe lines and bivouacked. After the fighting and marching fromthe time the movement commenced, and the arduous duty thatthe regiment had been performing for over thirty consecutivehours, it was a fraction too much to expect them to march inmud and rain and blinding darkness, a distance of twelve milesor more. The return to the Potomac Creek Camp did not wholly con-clude the campaign. Through some misunderstanding thetroops assigned to guard the pontoon train on its return marchhad permitted it to find its way home alone. When this appa-rent abandonment was known, considerable an
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