. 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 . rytrack of battles from the Rapidan to the James. At the Wilderness General Grants army included 316pieces of artillery, comprising 236 regiments and three battalionsof infantry, thirty-five regiments of cavalry and sixty-four bat-teries of light artillery. Many were veteran regiments whosebanners had waved on m
. 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 . rytrack of battles from the Rapidan to the James. At the Wilderness General Grants army included 316pieces of artillery, comprising 236 regiments and three battalionsof infantry, thirty-five regiments of cavalry and sixty-four bat-teries of light artillery. Many were veteran regiments whosebanners had waved on many hard-fought fields. The Armyof the Potomac, according to the morning report of April 30,1864, had an aggregate present of 127,471, including the 9thCorps. Many changes look place in the reorganization of theArmy of the Potomac for this campaign. 5th Corps commanded by G. K. Warren,ist Division commanded by Chas. Brigade commanded by Jos. J. Bartlett. 20th Maine, Maj. Ellis Spear. i8th Massachusetts, Col. Jos. Hayes, ist Michigan, Lieut-Col. William A. Throop. i6th Michigan, Maj. Robert T. Elliott. 44th New York, Freeman Connor. 83d Pennsylvania, Col. Orpheus S. Woodward. 118th Pennsylvania, Col. James Gwyn. CHAPTER THE WILDERNESS—LAUREL HILL—SPOTSYLVANIA. Oh, what is Death but parting breathOn many a bloody plain, Ive dared his face, And in this placeIll meet him yet again. LARKS MOUN-TAIN, the bold pro-montory on the southside of the Rapidan,the silent sentinel thathad kept its ever-wakeful watch on theold Potomac Army-through all the monthsthat it lay at rest inits quiet winter home,had not been overvigilant on the morning of the ist of May. The 5th Corpshad two rivers instead of one between it and the enemy, and tobe up with the rest of the army it moved two days earlier thatall might make that memorable midnight start on the the more than usual smoke that filled the air from theabandoned 5th Corps c
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