. 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 . beneficent Government, the troops from Pennsylvania standsecond to none. With the earnest hope, gentlemen, that you may continue to work with the samedutifulness in the future, and contribute from your means with the same liberalitythat you have in the past, until this unnatural and insane rebellion has been sup
. 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 . beneficent Government, the troops from Pennsylvania standsecond to none. With the earnest hope, gentlemen, that you may continue to work with the samedutifulness in the future, and contribute from your means with the same liberalitythat you have in the past, until this unnatural and insane rebellion has been sup-pressed and the supremacy of the law and order fully re-established, I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. G. CURTIN, This commercial body had already furnished from its mem-bership, or those who had affiliations with it, many good andworthy men, who had tasted deeply of the stern severities ofwar. Notable among them was Captain Charles M. had earned prominence and distinction on the staff of theirfellow-townsman, Brigadier-General Frank Patterson, in thehard-fought battles of the Peninsula, and on him fell worthilythe choice of the colonelcy of the regiment their energies hadso manfully projected. To him they wisely committed its. Ai ll:^ €U ii>;v Vli.^i >^L#Diegfe i»i THE iNt:W YORKPUBLIC LIBRAKY AS FOR, L£NOX ANDTILDSN FPUNOATIONS destinies; to him they intrusted its reputation and theirs; tohis skill they gave its training; to his soldierly judgment theyconsigned its military keeping. But six other officers, Gwynn,Donaldson, Batchelder, Hand, Walters and McCutchen, hadbeen in actual battle. Many others, among them Colonel Pre-vost as a captain and Major Herring as a lieutenant, had beenwell schooled in tactical instruction in the Gray Reserves, aregiment of high repute in the Pennsylvania militia. From theranks of this organization the line of the 119th Pennsylvania,as well as the regiment the history of which we are
Size: 1346px × 1857px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorunitedstatesarmypenns, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900
