. 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 . — 334 — outside of the usual routine of drill, parade and instruction,occupied the time, and enjoyments and amusements were notwanting within regimental limits to fill up the leisure. The Joe Hooker retreat was not forgotten. Antidotal againstdampness, moisture, depression and despondency, an exhilarat-ing excit
. 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 . — 334 — outside of the usual routine of drill, parade and instruction,occupied the time, and enjoyments and amusements were notwanting within regimental limits to fill up the leisure. The Joe Hooker retreat was not forgotten. Antidotal againstdampness, moisture, depression and despondency, an exhilarat-ing excitant for fun, merriment, wit and wisdom, it was in un-usually active GEORGE J. LEESER, CO. K. CHAPTER XIII. RAPPAHANNOCK STATION. If Southern steel be sharp and keen, Is not ours strong and true?There may be danger in the deed, But there is honor, too. EVENTIDE on the 6th blazed in the golden glory of aNovember Virginian twilight, and the setting sun bythe bright tracks of its fiery chariot gave promise of a goodlyday the morrow. The unsuspecting soldiers had no knowledge of the presenceof the enemy; no intimation of the work cut out for them to doon the following day. It was the general conviction that aftera few more days of inaction they would build winter-quartersand rest on their laurels until spring. They turned in thatnight happy in the thought and slept the sleep of the turned out the next morning at half-past four to thesharp, clear sound of the division bugle-call, hastily followed bythe reveille and general. Amazed, disappointed, drowsy, lifeseemed to them, for the time being, a failure. The brilliant sunset of the 6th kept its pro
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