. 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 . Rumor had notquieted. There weremany conceptions andfrequent suggestionsof what the enemywere about to do; butlate in May, withoutopportunity to gaininformation, instinctseemed to point tothe conclusion, in thelanguage of the boxer,that Lee was about to spar for an open-ing. Events werenow rapidly culminating to
. 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 . Rumor had notquieted. There weremany conceptions andfrequent suggestionsof what the enemywere about to do; butlate in May, withoutopportunity to gaininformation, instinctseemed to point tothe conclusion, in thelanguage of the boxer,that Lee was about to spar for an open-ing. Events werenow rapidly culminating to justify this opinion. On the 26th the picket details on the right flank of the armywere strengthened, and a very unusual number—twelve hundred—from the brigade, under Major Herring as the brigade officer,were detached for that duty. And then on the 29th the oldcamp was abandoned, this time forever, and the whole right of ^S>^J^ — 217 — the army was extended first some twenty miles to Grove Churchand the next day still farther, to the vicinity of Morrisville, aboutsix miles southeast of Bealton, a station on the Orange andAlexandria Railroad, and some twelve miles in the same generaldirection from the familiar location of Warrenton Junction. Theold soldiers, subtle f
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