. 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 . thickly wooded ravine, which effectually con-cealed the two bodies fromeach other, but their linewas there when Bartlettsline was established. The5th Corps pickets were per-emptorily instructed uponno consideration to changetheir front. Anticipating anattack from the direction inwhich they faced whenposted, they
. 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 . thickly wooded ravine, which effectually con-cealed the two bodies fromeach other, but their linewas there when Bartlettsline was established. The5th Corps pickets were per-emptorily instructed uponno consideration to changetheir front. Anticipating anattack from the direction inwhich they faced whenposted, they were to devotetheir attention exclusivelyto that direction. Havingnever seen Burnsides picketline, and not having beeninformed of its withdrawal,they were wholly unac-quainted with the fact that it had been withdrawn. Major ONeill was the officer in charge of the brigade skir-mish line, and of his detail were 160 men from the Ii8th, com-manded by Captain Henry K. Kelly, under whom were Lieu-tenants Crossley, Connor and Seesholtz. Lieutenant Crossleywas assigned to the right, Seesholtz the centre, and Connorthe left, Captain Kelly assuming general charge of thewhole. The line was posted about eleven oclock in the morning,occupying pits built to accommodate three men each. Soon. CHARLES H. HAND,Lieutenant and Brevet-Major. — 455 — afterwards the enemy opened fire, and the two lines were en-gaged in a desultory way until about three oclock in the after-noon, when the firing was interrupted by a severe thunder-storm. The three men in the pit in which George W. Lenoirwas posted repeatedly fired at a general officer on a whitehorse, who, with his staff, was seen frequently riding up anddown the Confederate lines. While it rained the men huddledtogether closely in the pits seated on their knapsacks, impro-vising such shelter as their gum blankets afforded, still keepingan eye sharply to the front. Just as the shower ceased an of-ficer passed along the line with the information th
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