. 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 . ing the large accu-mulation of amputated limbs. As he passed by one of thefield hospitals with his armful of legs he was carelesslyaccosted by one of two wounded soldiers of the ist Michigan,who were complacently engaged in a game of cards. Theone who addressed him had lost his leg in the second daysfight and wa
. 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 . ing the large accu-mulation of amputated limbs. As he passed by one of thefield hospitals with his armful of legs he was carelesslyaccosted by one of two wounded soldiers of the ist Michigan,who were complacently engaged in a game of cards. Theone who addressed him had lost his leg in the second daysfight and was anxious to identify it. Thinking it might bewith the load Osborn carried, he requested him to halt andpermit him to make an examination. Recollect, said he,* my leg can be readily distinguished from the others by acarbuncle on the little toe. It gave me much annoyance whenI had the entire use of the missing member, and I would justlike to see how the ugly parasite is thriving without GETTYSBURG versus Corporal J. L. Smith. The battle of Gettysburg was the greatest conflict of modern times. In thenumber of men engaged, in its duration, it exceeded Waterloo, and the loss oflife was heavier. Over one-third of the Union army and nearly one-half of theConfederate army were killed, wounded or missing. General Picketts charge, on the third day, and its repulse, have not beenequalled in valor since the of Thermopylae. Napoleons Old Guard, his-toric for their victorious career, wavered before the first volley of the Englishbatteries at Waterloo, and at the second fell back in confusion and men at Gettysburg advanced a mile under a fire of musketry andartillery that tore great gaps in the line, which were filled by the living, andfirmly, steadily the line advanced, as through the very gates of hell, until theyengaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the Union men, but were finally repulsed. Waterloo has stood for half a century without a paral
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