. 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 . able pre-cision. As the regiment debouched from the town, upon the edge of theclosely-built thoroughfare, was a sign, in large black letters: Van Haugens Variety Store. It had scarcely come into view — 127 — when a shell burst and tore it to fragments. The pieces of theshell and sign fell into the ranks of Compa
. 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 . able pre-cision. As the regiment debouched from the town, upon the edge of theclosely-built thoroughfare, was a sign, in large black letters: Van Haugens Variety Store. It had scarcely come into view — 127 — when a shell burst and tore it to fragments. The pieces of theshell and sign fell into the ranks of Company K. Their losswas not so serious as that of the ist Michigan, in the rear,where, at about the same time, another shell burst, killing ormaiming some sixteen of its soldiers, whose startled shriekscould be heard above the din and roar of the battle. Thecolumn now plunged into and waded through the was done as quickly as possible, for the Confederates hadtrained a battery on this spot. In the mill-race were noticed verymany solid shot and unexploded shells, which had evidentlyrolled back into the water after striking the side of the embank-ment. Private John Mensing was carrying his piece at ** armsport: a shell struck and shivered it to fragments, but beyond. STONE WALL AT FREDERICKSBURG. a severe cut on his right hand he was not injured. Anothertore off the right arm of Private John Fisher just below theelbow and knocked down four sergeants in one were more or less bruised and hurt, but none of themseriously. The right of the brigade had now reached an open level spaceon the left of the road, some four hundred yards in width, aswell as observation could estimate it. At its farther edge theground rose abruptly, as if the earth had been cut away. Thisperpendicular rise or cut was the extreme base of the slopethat approached and terminated in the gun-capped MaryesHeights. The artillery played with unintermitting vigor. — 128 — The usual rotati
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