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 . ere not captured fellback slowly, fighting. The attack fell heavily upon the Mary-land brigade. Colonel Dushane, its commanding officer, agallant soldier, was killed. General J. William Hoffman, thedistinguished Philadelphia!!, who bore high battle honors forhis city so honorably throughout the war, with his brigade ofthe 4th Divi
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 . ere not captured fellback slowly, fighting. The attack fell heavily upon the Mary-land brigade. Colonel Dushane, its commanding officer, agallant soldier, was killed. General J. William Hoffman, thedistinguished Philadelphia!!, who bore high battle honors forhis city so honorably throughout the war, with his brigade ofthe 4th Division resisted the severe assault on his front man-fully and successfully. The Confederates came up through the standing corn in fourlines of battle. The Maryland brigade laid down so that theycould not be seen, and when the Confederates were within fiftyyards they rose up and delivered a withering fire. Six timesthe flag of the first line of Confederates fell, and six times acolor corporal picked it up and was killed. After that it laidon the ground until it was captured. The corn-stalks were cutoff by the bullets as if with a knife. — 503 — These assaults were renewed but without effect. Hagoodsbrigade of South Carolinians, caught in a position where our. troops were in echelon, were almost surrounded, threw downtheir arms and it was thought surrendered, when the firingceased. Parties moving out to complete the capture were, — 504 — however, fired upon. In the confusion our men could not re-turn the fire and many of Hagoods men escaped. CaptainDaly, the provost-marshal of the 4th Division, was shot—Gen-eral Warren says, by Hagood himself. It was a dastardlypiece of work. Daly, as his official duties required, had rid-den out to gather in the prisoners, believed to have sur-rendered, when a general officer, mounted upon a white horse,deliberately shot him. This act was plainly seen from severaldirections on the line and by our whole regiment. Instantlythe men rose, le
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