. 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 . CAPTAIN CHARLES M. YOUNG. — 522 — to a majority for gallant service at Peebles Farm. The fightof the morning became known as Peebles Farm and that ofthe afternoon as Pegrams Farm. On the morning of the ist of October the division returnedto the position which it had sought the day before and beganthe constructio
. 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 . CAPTAIN CHARLES M. YOUNG. — 522 — to a majority for gallant service at Peebles Farm. The fightof the morning became known as Peebles Farm and that ofthe afternoon as Pegrams Farm. On the morning of the ist of October the division returnedto the position which it had sought the day before and beganthe construction of works laid out for the permanent works were maintained until the operations about Peters-burg were concluded. Near this vicinity the line of the 6th Corps. MORNING BEFORE THE CHARGE AT POPLAR GROVE CHURCH. was afterwards formed for the final assault. And it was here-abouts that Fort Fisher and the Signal Tower were subsequentlyconstructed. Here the regiment remained, except during thefew days the corps was over Hatchers Run with Hancock onhis Boydton Plank Road expedition, until the 6th Corps re-lieved the 5th in early December. The work had been in progress some few hours when Gen-eral Warren appeared with his staff. It had not advanced withthe expedition the general conceived it should. He vented his 523 opinion explicitly. I never saw, said he, a lazier set of menin my life; they are good for nothing but fight. I could takemy staff and cut down more trees than the whole intended as an indirect compliment for the valorousdeeds of the day before. The happy reference to fight was anincentive to activity and, for a time at least, the work mademore rapid progress. Captain Joseph Ashbrook received his appointment as ord-na
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