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 . drinking and washingwater was brought from the river Dan, a muddy creek which ran through the town. During our sojourn atDanville our rations were ahalf loaf, or about a poundand a quarter, of corn-bread,a piece of bacon about twoinches square, and a halfpint of thin bean-soup for aday. Although confined but aweek in this place, t
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 . drinking and washingwater was brought from the river Dan, a muddy creek which ran through the town. During our sojourn atDanville our rations were ahalf loaf, or about a poundand a quarter, of corn-bread,a piece of bacon about twoinches square, and a halfpint of thin bean-soup for aday. Although confined but aweek in this place, the wantof ventilation and the crowd-ed condition of the roomstold sadly upon the healthof the men. One evening we wereordered to be ready to moveat six oclock the next morn-ing. A Confederate majorcame into the prison, and said that we would all certainly beexchanged in less than two weeks. The gloom that had set-tled upon us was dispersed in an instant; some laughed, someexchanged congratulations, and all were glad and merry. The next morning we were furnished with two days rationsof corn-bread and bacon, and then marched to the cars. Onthe way we passed a high pole from which flaunted the starsand bars. It made us fee] our condition as captives SERGEANT THOMAS J. HYATT. — 6u — The cars were ordinary freight or box cars, and from sixty-five to seventy-five were forced into each car. There was notroom for all to sit down, even when crowded together so closelythat the knees and chins of those who were sitting nearlytouched each other. Those who were standing when the carsfirst started got the chance of resting themselves when othersrose to ease their joints, which had become numb and painfulby remaining in the uncomfortable sitting posture. We soonfound that we weie going in a southerly direction, which madeour situation still more unbearable, for it destroyed all hope ofexchange for the time being. We stopped at a station. There was a Confederate hospitalat the
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