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. 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 . LOG BREASTWORKS WE OCCUPIED AT BETHESDA CHURCH. » Harbor. Here there was an all-day stop, intended to be, as itwas, an interval of real, comforting rest. There was muchgunnery along the entrenched lines. But once out of the fraythe distant noise of a battle is a soft refrain. It is the hustle,screech and whir of
. 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 . LOG BREASTWORKS WE OCCUPIED AT BETHESDA CHURCH. » Harbor. Here there was an all-day stop, intended to be, as itwas, an interval of real, comforting rest. There was muchgunnery along the entrenched lines. But once out of the fraythe distant noise of a battle is a soft refrain. It is the hustle,screech and whir of closer relations that break the illusion. Thiswas the 5th Corps * day off; it had indeed earned a had scarcely dawned on the 7th when the column wasoff again towards the left. A five-mile journey brought itsright to Sumners lower bridge on the Chickahominy. — 468 —In the constant hard usage of the campaign the clothing was. CHICKAHOMINY SWAMP. worn almost threadbare ; the shoes were through to the , drawers and stockings, forlorn and dirty, were mostly — 4^9 — beyond washing, and if change was to be made at all, a newissue was essentially necessary. The presence of Quarter-master Gardner in the camp indicated an arrival of supplies,and with the appearance of his well-stocked wagons shortlyafterwards the ragged, worn and dirty garments were discardedfor the new, clean clothing at hand to replace them. The Chickahominy alone separating the combatants, thepickets soon began their accustomed familiarities. The 35thNorth Carolina vis-a-vis d the 118th Pennsylvania. War mayarouse bitter antipathies on occasions of actual combat, butwhen both sides speak the same tongue, with the exchange ofa word or two, hatred and antagonisms melt before a naturaltendency to be excessively communicative and sometimes con-fiding. Lone fishermen sat upon either end of the bridge,danghng their lines resultlessly
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