. 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 . P. Hillhad been despatched to attack General Warren. Throughout theentire route scarce aman was to be foundamong the inhabi-tants. Houses weredeserted or at mostcontained only help-less women and chil-dren. There were,though, indicationsthat men had beenlurking in the dead bodies ofsoldiers were founda
. 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 . P. Hillhad been despatched to attack General Warren. Throughout theentire route scarce aman was to be foundamong the inhabi-tants. Houses weredeserted or at mostcontained only help-less women and chil-dren. There were,though, indicationsthat men had beenlurking in the dead bodies ofsoldiers were foundalong the roadside;in one case, it wassaid, with the throatcut, and other in-SKRGT. THEo. B. J RYER, CO. K. stanccs wcrc re- ported of still more revolting barbarities. The stories of thesecruelties aroused a spirit of vengeance, and in retaliation thetorch was applied to almost every house along the route. Theefforts of the officers to stop this incendiarism were but par-tially successful. During the night of the i ith it cleared and the weather setin bitter cold. In the morning the roads were frozen stiff, sothat the trains moved easily, but the men, with feet sore andblistered, some even barefooted, suffered severely. Captain Ashbrook, ordnance officer, with Nugent, his ser-. — 541 — geant, was riding with the trains. Two ladies with mournfulcountenance stood in the doorway of a house by the road-side. Ashbrook rode towards them to inquire the cause andto proffer his services if it were within his power to reheve theirmanifest distress. They pointed to the neighborhood of the barn,where a dozen or more soldiers pursued with felonious purpose agoodly flock of turkeys, all that was left of animal food of the
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