. 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 . 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 southea
. 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 . 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. GENERAL JOS. J. BARTLETT. Corps, moving off in the direction of Chewnings and theWidow Tapps, towards Parkers Store, on the Orange andFredericksburg plank road. Chewnings is about two milessouthwest of the Lacy House, where Grant and Meaderemained during most of the action. Except the occasionalcleared fields of these three and a few other farms, the forestwas unbroken. Wadsworth and Robinson followed Craw- — 399 — ford in the order named, and Griffin remained across theturnpike, throwing up breastworks about eight oclock in themorning. To Griffins division belongs the distinction of having openedthe battle of the Wilderness, which will be ever memorable,not only for its magnitude, the fierceness with which it wascontested and the appalling loss of life on both sides, but asbeing the commencement of the greatest campaign of the noon Griffin advanced with great difficulty through thewoods, with Ayress brigade on the right of the pike andSweitzers and Bartletts on the left
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