. 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 . lter-tents were brought into requisition, and a com-fortable camp established. The regulars were an orderly, proper set. They went about their business in amethodical, mechan-ical way, preservinga painful habits werestrange, contrastedwith the volunteers,whose lusty shoutswhen they brokeranks never
. 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 . lter-tents were brought into requisition, and a com-fortable camp established. The regulars were an orderly, proper set. They went about their business in amethodical, mechan-ical way, preservinga painful habits werestrange, contrastedwith the volunteers,whose lusty shoutswhen they brokeranks never failed toexhibit anger or mer-riment as the daystramp had pleasedor incommoded. Mosby had notbeen idle. This re-gion was his happyh u n t i n g-ground,and the 5th and otherCorps trains had suffered somewhat from his forays. For-tunately the wagons of the division escaped entirely. Fromthe limited supply of clothing they contained an issue wasmade, fractional as compared with the needs which, with theheavy work already done and the still heavier likely to follow,were increasing daily. These were the dark days of the Union, darker than anysince Valley Forge. What followed lifted the gloom andrelieved the depression that had well nigh strangled the manlyefforts of a loyal ALBERT HAVERSTICK.
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