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Title: 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
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) Smith, John L., b. 1846
Subjects: United States. Army Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1861-1965) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., J.L. Smith
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ndthe pits as promptly turned. General Birneys division of the 2d Corps, that had been pre-viously sent to strengthen the 5th Corps lengthened lines, onthe 5th was returned to its own corps and extended its left tothe Chickahominy. About ten oclock on that night the brigade moved off finallyfrom the vicinity of the Shady Grove Church Road, a localityit had learned to know so intimately, if not favorably. MajorSpear, of the 20th Maine, was left in command of the divisionpickets, and Lieutenant Ashbrook of the regimental detail.There was sharp firing at times during the night. A friendly 46; fo^ aided the withdrawal of the pickets. During the nightmany of our wounded between the two hnes, and under thedirect fire of the pickets, were brought in by comrades. That the acquaintanceship with Bethesda Church might notbe discourteously severed, the brigade halted there at 2.30 inthe morning ; again resumingreached Allens Mill, not far the march at sunrise the columnfrom the old Tavern at Cold
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LOG BREASTWORKS WE OCCUPIED AT BETHESDA CHURCH. » Harbor. Here there was an all-day stop, intended to be, as itwas, an interval of real, comforting rest. There was muchgunnery along the entrenched lines. But once out of the fraythe distant noise of a battle is a soft refrain. It is the hustle,screech and whir of closer relations that break the illusion. Thiswas the 5th Corps * day off; it had indeed earned a holiday.Day had scarcely dawned on the 7th when the column wasoff again towards the left. A five-mile journey brought itsright to Sumners lower bridge on the Chickahominy. — 468 —In the constant hard usage of the campaign the clothing was
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