. 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 . ed, the soldiers on the other side, on the parapet and the ground in front of the works, played at ball with a sportive vivacity that equalled boyhood energies. Again within the year since Fredericksburg, the Potomac army faced its whilom foe behind intrenchments dark, gloomy, formidable. The recollections of th
. 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 . ed, the soldiers on the other side, on the parapet and the ground in front of the works, played at ball with a sportive vivacity that equalled boyhood energies. Again within the year since Fredericksburg, the Potomac army faced its whilom foe behind intrenchments dark, gloomy, formidable. The recollections of that field, its fatalities and sad disaster would not down. Though with serious convictions that the task was hopeless, there was still a high resolve to do and dare for the best.* Contrary to precedent the skirmishers were de-cidedly less active thanwas usual at the open-inf^: of an enfra^ early nightfallclosed upon the scene,each side confident thebusiness that broughtthem there would besettled on the morrow. With the darkness,there was a decided fallin the temperature. Itwas a bitter, nippingcold, so intense thatupon portions of theline, more exposed thanothers, the pickets were relieved every thirty minutes, and instances were reported of men beinsr frozen to * General Morgan, Inspector-General of the 2d Corps, relates the following in-cident : While on the picket line reconnoitring, my uniform concealed by a sol-diers overcoat, I asked an old veteran of the noble 1st Minnesota, on picket, whathe thought of the prospect. Not recognizing me as an officer, he expressed him-self very freely, declaring it * a d—d sight worse than Fredericksburg, and adding,* I am going as far as I can travel, but we cant get more than two-thirds of theway up the hill. —Walkers History of Second Army Corps, p. 383. — 3^9 — The combinations for the assault had been perfected duringthe afternoon. Warren, with his own corps and Terrys di-vision of the 6th, had been moved to
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