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 . ldiers andwon a respect and esteem that would have followed himthrough what promised to be a most successful military career;but his race was nearly run. Shortly after the fight, typhoidfever seized him in its most virulent form. Hurried expediti-ously from the front,he died as he was be-ing borne uncon-scious into his resi-dence,
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 . ldiers andwon a respect and esteem that would have followed himthrough what promised to be a most successful military career;but his race was nearly run. Shortly after the fight, typhoidfever seized him in its most virulent form. Hurried expediti-ously from the front,he died as he was be-ing borne uncon-scious into his resi-dence, on the 21stof November, Sharwoodentered the serviceprompted solely bya pure spirit of patri-otism and had en-deared himself to alarge circle of mili-tary friends. Hissuperiors trustedhim; his soldiers ad-mired him. He was a man of culture and captain dendy sharwood. refinement, and with his bright intelligence he had promptlygrasped and discharged the new and trying duties of his sol-diers life. It was indistinguishable darkness when everything was late or tired for supper, moved to a patch of adjacent tim-ber, the weary soldiers promptly sought in sleep the rest theyso much needed. A visit to the captured entrenchments when the morning. — 346 — dawned showed the usual debris found on all , haversacks, muskets, harness, cannon, limbers, andother articles not military, such as trinkets, mementos anddiaries, lost by the wounded or abandoned in the hurry of asudden and forced departure, were the silent witnesses of quickwork and unexpected retreat. The earthwork itself gave evi-dence of a severe pounding. The view from the parapet wascomplete over the entire plain. The most indifferent artilleristcould not have failed of effective practice. An adjutant of one of the regiments in the assaulting columnhad his horse killed in this action. The ball had entered thestomach and bowels. The adjutant had heard the thud, but asthe animal did n
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