. 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 . armies, to make no such fatal blunder. But the way inwhich he managed thispart of his case—whichreally needed no suchurgency, for the Presi-dent had no serious pur-pose of carrying out hissuggestion—and the wayhe continued to press therighteous claims of thosefor whom he pled, ulti-mately convinced thePresident
. 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 . armies, to make no such fatal blunder. But the way inwhich he managed thispart of his case—whichreally needed no suchurgency, for the Presi-dent had no serious pur-pose of carrying out hissuggestion—and the wayhe continued to press therighteous claims of thosefor whom he pled, ulti-mately convinced thePresident that justicemust be done, andenough of the major-generals not with thearmy at the front shouldbe mustered out to makeroom for those deservingpromotions. Elated with his success, the corps commander hurried toGeneral Halleck and rapidly repeated the result of his inter-view. General Halleck was not slow to act. Within an hourhe was with the President with a list of generals whose servicescould be summarily dispensed with. The hours delay wasfatal; the success of the corps commander with the Presidenthad promptly spread abroad. Political influence dominatedthe situation. The strong men these distinguished heroeskept at the capital to watch their shadowy hold on military life. CAPTAIN JOHN R. WHITE. — 39^ — were quickly with the President. All the good the corps com-mander had done was speedily dissipated; the major-generalsheld on, and the hope of promotion that had dawned on thebrigadiers disappeared for a long time to come. The signs of a movement increased ; the season when it wouldbecome practicable drew nearer. April was well on the surest of all indications that battles must be looked for wasat hand. The field-hospitals were abandoned and the sickordered to the rear. Afterwards but a single day elapsed, andthen from the smoke and flame that arose, as the torch de-stroyed all that remained of its old abandoned dwelling-place,the regiment plunged into the fie
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