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 . portunity offered for the occupationof the important ridge on the 30th, or its subsequent unfor-tunate abandonment, after it had been carried by Sykess hardfiehtinsf on the 1st. Most of the contributions to war literaturefrom both sides are, however, confirmatory of the impressionsabroad in the army at the moment, and unhesitating
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 . portunity offered for the occupationof the important ridge on the 30th, or its subsequent unfor-tunate abandonment, after it had been carried by Sykess hardfiehtinsf on the 1st. Most of the contributions to war literaturefrom both sides are, however, confirmatory of the impressionsabroad in the army at the moment, and unhesitatingly pro-nounce the act a lamentable blunder. Another futile effort had staggered a disappointed country,and Chancellorsville was numbered with the other the Army of the Potomac, with its seventeen thousand onehundred and ninety-seven, killed, wounded and missing, itsbuoyancy checked, and its expectations unrealized, was stillresolute of purpose, confident in strength, and firm in convic-tion that it would yet gain the mastery. Neither the army northe people had yet learned that the irresistible Anglo-Saxonrace, when its representatives were battling against each other,could only be subdued when one side or the other should beworn into CHAPTER VIII. AFTER CHANCELLORSVILLE—CAMP AT GOLD FARM, ALDIE, MID-DLEBURG, UPPERVILLE, VA. IN the course of a week after the collapse at Chancellors-ville, by dint of close application, the regiment had slept,ate, and brushed itself into something like its normal condition. Even Scipio Africanus, whose face had been uneasily solemnsince the light from the bursting shell shone upon its terror inthe wilderness, had so far recovered his spirits as to laugh at hisadventure, and give his own version (not exactly truthful) of itto the other servants of the officers, as follows: I was jes standin wid de offisuz, and bime-by, when nobodywuznt thinkin nuthin, de reb guns go boom ! boom ! an deshells begin to fizz and screech, a
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