History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to AppomattoxTo which is added a record of its organization and a complete rosterFully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . rom the old Tavern at Cold Harbor. Here there wasan all-day stop, intendedto be, as it was, an intervalof real, comforting was much gunneryand some musketry allalong the entrenched once out of the fraythe distant noise of a battleis a soft refrain. It is thehustle, screech and whir ofcloser relations that brea
History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from their first engagement at Antietam to AppomattoxTo which is added a record of its organization and a complete rosterFully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations . rom the old Tavern at Cold Harbor. Here there wasan all-day stop, intendedto be, as it was, an intervalof real, comforting was much gunneryand some musketry allalong the entrenched once out of the fraythe distant noise of a battleis a soft refrain. It is thehustle, screech and whir ofcloser relations that breakthe illusion. This was the5th Corps day off; ithad indeed earned a holi-day. Day had scarce dawnedon the 7th when the col-umn was off again towardsthe left. A five-mile jour-ney brought its right to Sumners lower bridge on the Chicka-hominy, opposite the old battle-ground of Gainess Mill, withthe left extended towards Dispatch Station on the Richmondand York River Railroad. The 5th Corps, with its right rest-ing on the 2d, was now the extreme left of the army. Theenemy discovered the new development and enlivened the situ-ation during the night by exploding a few shells withoutdamage. Ashbrook and Moore were mustered as first lieutenants andYoung as CAPTAIN AND BREVET-MAJOR JOSEPHASHBROOK. — 468 —In the constant hard usage of the campaign the clothing was
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