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 . , shelter-tents were brought into requisition, and a com-fortable camp established. The regulars were an orderly, proper set. They went about their business in amethodical, mechan-ical way, preservinga painful habits werestrange, contrastedwith the volunteers,whose lusty shoutswhen they brokeranks never failed toexhi
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 . , shelter-tents were brought into requisition, and a com-fortable camp established. The regulars were an orderly, proper set. They went about their business in amethodical, mechan-ical way, preservinga painful habits werestrange, contrastedwith the volunteers,whose lusty shoutswhen they brokeranks never failed toexhibit anger or mer-riment as the daystramp had pleasedor incommoded. Mosby had notbeen idle. This re-gion was his happyhuntin g-ground,and the 5th and otherCorps trains had suffered somewhat from his forays. For-tunately the wagons of the division escaped entirely. Fromthe limited supply of clothing they contained an issue wasmade, fractional as compared with the needs which, with theheavy work already done and the still heavier likely to follow,were increasing daily. These were the dark days of the Union, darker than anysince Valley Forge. What followed lifted the gloom andrelieved the depression that had well nigh strangled the manlyefforts of a loyal ALBERT HAVERSTICK. CHAPTER IX. GETTYSBURG. LEES design was manifest. The forcing of his cavalry-westward may have interrupted, but did not alter hispurpose. A Northern invasion, skilfully planned, had beenconsummated, and the famed historic Potomac had ceased tobe the border which controlled the strife. Lees legions hadput the Potomac river behind them, and the unsuspectingfarmers of Maryland and Pennsylvania were startled in thevery early summer time by the advance of his mighty anxious, patriotic people again contributed freely of theirstalwart sons to do battle for their hearthstones. The archivesof Pennsylvanias capital were gathered for removal. Levieshad been made by the Confederates upon her towns, which th
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