. 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 . dissipated the flippant treatment with which thepreliminary directions had been received, and, amid somebustle and confusion, the regiment was without delay in line,awaiting the order to march. The sun, great and round, rose ominously red. Camp-fixt-ures were to remain standing and the troops to be equipped inli
. 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 . dissipated the flippant treatment with which thepreliminary directions had been received, and, amid somebustle and confusion, the regiment was without delay in line,awaiting the order to march. The sun, great and round, rose ominously red. Camp-fixt-ures were to remain standing and the troops to be equipped inlight-marching order only. The soldiers had not yet conceivedthat much was intended beyond a reconnoissance in heavy , though, was one of those hopeful conceptions to drive offthe notion that there would be a fight. The company cooks were metamorphosed; that is, theseprofessional gentlemen had been promoted to the ranks, ex-changed their ladles for nmskets and cartridge-boxes, and weregiven an opportunity to pepper the enemies of their countryinstead of the bean soup. One of chem, whose rotund form andunctuous face made his usual occupation unmistakable, hearingthe boom of the heavy guns, asked what the noise was. He was answered : The rebel artillery. (112) — 113 —. — 114 — You fellers neednt think you can fool me. Ive heardthat noise too often in Philadelphia; theyre unloading boardssomewhere. Afterward, when the man of pots and pans heard the screechof the shells and saw them falling in the river near the engi-neers who were laying the pontoons, he went lumbering to therear as though he had forgotten something, and his oleaginousform faded in the distance. At seven oclock the column was in motion, not in thefamiliar direction towards Hartwood Church, but by theshortest and most practicable route to Falmouth and the Rap-pahannock. Evidences were everywhere abroad of preparationfor desperate and bloody work. Ambulance trains were parkedin every direction; every
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