. 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 . sof their terrible loss, they took the places allotted them inthe boats and pushed them into the stream. They were rapidlypulled across, the galling fire continuing until a landing effectedupon the other side in a measure silenced it. This brilliantachievement of the /th Michigan and 19th Massachusetts, inthe pr
. 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 . sof their terrible loss, they took the places allotted them inthe boats and pushed them into the stream. They were rapidlypulled across, the galling fire continuing until a landing effectedupon the other side in a measure silenced it. This brilliantachievement of the /th Michigan and 19th Massachusetts, inthe presence of the large audience on the bluffs, crowned theseregiments with enduring fame.* The laying of the bridges * There was, probably, no such fighting done during the war in the streets of acity as the 19th Massachusetts did in Fredericksburg on the night of Decemberir. 1862, Palfrys Antietam and Fredericksburg contains a most graphic de-scription of it by Captain Hall. The following letter, sent to one of the papersby the lieutenant-colonel of the 19th Massachusetts, shows the part that regimenttook in the assault: A member of the old fighting 19th handed me a copy of the August Centurycontaining General Couchs article on Sumners Right Grand Division, and, plac- — II6 —. •^^vj if,;* i^ftw^ii ^^- ...J ?■ ^ I ,,1 I ^iii_vJliiUl — 117 — soon followed, but it was late in the afternoon before they werefitted for a passage. It did not fall to the lot of our division to cross that night,and about five oclock it retired a mile or so for a bivouac near ing his finger on that portion of it where the crossing of the river in boats is spokenof, said, in tones of bitterness : A twinge here, pointing to what was left of a oncegood leg, reminds me that the old 19th was around at that time, and I swear itdoes seem too bad that we should not at least receive a little credit from our com-mander at that lime. It may have been an oversight or forgetfulness on the partof General Cou
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