. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . ir participation in it wasnever discovered. Failing to announce their intended absence — 311 — from camp, inquiries at the head-quarters ofi the 118th broughtthe response that it was none of their officers, as on the nightin question they were all at home. Personally, they were un-known to all the officers at the ball save o
. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . ir participation in it wasnever discovered. Failing to announce their intended absence — 311 — from camp, inquiries at the head-quarters ofi the 118th broughtthe response that it was none of their officers, as on the nightin question they were all at home. Personally, they were un-known to all the officers at the ball save one. He, a cavalryman,disgusted with the discomfiture of his fellows, refused to disclosehis acquaintanceship. The provost-guard of the ist Michiganand 18th Massachusetts, who had made but a half-hearted at-tempt at arrest at the time of the disturbance, glorying in any-thing that added to the prowess of the brigade, if they had anysuspicions, never announced them. Cool, clear, bracing autumn weather prevailed. Routinecamp duties and heavy picket details monopolized the timeuntil Lee began his celebrated movement around the right,with Warrenton, Centreville or Washington for its objective,which hurried the Army of the Potomac off on its mad race tointercept SERGEANT HlRAiM LAKE. CHAPTER XII. LEES MOVEMENT AROUXD OUR RIGHT FLANK-BROAD RUN. -BRISTOE- H I L E the army re-mained in tlie vicinityof Culpepper and theRapidan, the signal of-ficers, who had caughtthe key of the Confed-erate code, were in thehabit of interceptingmessages from the ene-mys signal station onClarks Mountain. These despatches,however interesting oramusing, had neverproved especially in-structive until, on theafternoon of the 7th of October, a despatch to General FitzHugh Lee from General J. E. B. Stuart, directing him to drawthree da}s bacon and hard bread, was caught on the wing, andon being sent forward to head-quarters of the army arousedGeneral Meades attention to the coming movement.* The impend
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