. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . UiJKAL-vi, From Antietam to Appomattox WITH THE 118th PENNA. vols. CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION — CAMP UNION FORTS ALBANY AND COCHRAN. promising results anticipated fromthe majestic advance of the splen-didly appointed Potomac Army fromYorktovvn to the Chickahominy in thespring of 1862 were speedily had te
. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . UiJKAL-vi, From Antietam to Appomattox WITH THE 118th PENNA. vols. CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION — CAMP UNION FORTS ALBANY AND COCHRAN. promising results anticipated fromthe majestic advance of the splen-didly appointed Potomac Army fromYorktovvn to the Chickahominy in thespring of 1862 were speedily had tested the capacityof the Union soldiery for vigorous as-sault, while Fair Oaks and Seven Pineswere assurances of ability for indomita-ble resistance. Then for a month therewas ominous quiet, while the lines ofbeleaguerment were maintained aboutthe Confederate capital, when suddenlyupon the exposed right fell the over-whelming shock of Gaines Mill andMechanicsville. The famous Seven-Days battles followed, with all theirvalor and all their fatalities, and concluding resultlessly atMalvern Hill, the leaguers went a-summering on the banks ofthe James. (I). An anxi< people viewed the situation witli alarm. TheGovernment, stirred to renewed activities, called again upon thegallant North to recuperate the depleted ranks of her sorely-pressed soldiers. Disaster had not abated enthusiasm, norfailure diminished zeal. Emergencies are the opportunities ofheroes, and the patriotic freemen of the North, the East and theWest again promptly responded with their sturdy was this condition of public sentiment that gave birth to the118th Pennsylvania. The Corn Exchange of Philadelphia, now better known bythe more significant name of the Commercial Exchange, wascomposed of a membership conspicuous for their loyalty to theUnion and their zeal and liberality in sustaining the Govern-ment in all its efforts to put dowy the Rebellion. On the morning of the 15th of April, 1861, whe
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