. 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 . er and encouraging re-minders of the better things athome. Such were the featuresnoticeable for their frequency be-tween the Ny and the Anna. Itwas a thrifty country and appar-ently a prosperous people. Warsdespoiling hand in such a regionrested with a greater severity uponthe inhabitants and their belong-ings t
. 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 . er and encouraging re-minders of the better things athome. Such were the featuresnoticeable for their frequency be-tween the Ny and the Anna. Itwas a thrifty country and appar-ently a prosperous people. Warsdespoiling hand in such a regionrested with a greater severity uponthe inhabitants and their belong-ings than in the sparsely settled,unproductive waste late the sceneof such fierce, enduring fight. ButVirginias cup was not yet fair fields already troddenand wasted were but typical of the devastation yet to follow. The 5th Corps continued to move on the 21st to GuineaStation, on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail-way, about ^ight miles from the court-house; then crossing atGuinea Bridge, below the junction of the Po and Ny, it haltedfor the night about nine oclock at Catlets, sending forwarddetachments towards Mud Tavern and Madisons Store. Thelatter place is about a mile from Nancy Wrights, on the Tele-graph Road, the main road to Richmond. Detachments of (434). — 435 — the enemys cavalry were at the bridge when the corps ap-proached it and continued in front as it advanced. All the army was trending southward. So too was Lee, butnot for the purpose it was hoped he would. The 2d Corpshad been thrown well away from the main army, some twentymiles, in the hope that the temptation might lure Lee to attackit, and then the others were so held that they could swoopdown on him overwhelmingly for his temerity. But the pro-ject worked ill. Lee seemed to covet no such opportunity,and, content with simply interposing himself between us andRichmond, turned our movement into the usual genuine flank-ing operation, as it was intended it should be considered, if Leecould n
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