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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fighting was not to be aban-doned. The night was dark and stormy, and the difficulty of com-municating in the dense woods was so great that although theorder withdrawing the division by the plank road had goneto the troops from corps head-quarters an hour and a halfbefore theorder directing a resumption of the advance wasissued, yet the latter order reached them first. The troops hadbeen sorely tried and needed rest. The proximity to the enemyforbade the use of drums or bugles to rouse the men, and everyorder had necessarily to be communicated personally from thecommanding officers to their subordinates until it eventuallyreached the non-commissioned officers. Fatigued to the limitof endurance, the sleep of the soldiers was deep and heavy,and the task of the non-commissioned officers to aroube eachone individually was not light. The moon set after midnight,on a dark, starless night in the gloomy forests; the search firstfor commanding officers and then for the soldiers was no easyone.
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In March of 1864 theist Corps was transferred to the 5thand Gen. Warren was assigned to the command. The 1st and2d Divisions of the 5th Corps were consolidated, forming the1st Division under Gen. Griffin. The 3d Division (Crawfords)remained unchanged. The ist Corps now became the 2dand 4th Divisions of the 5th Corps under command of GeneralsRobinson and Wadsworth. In this reorganization the 5th Corps contained ^j regimentsof infantry and 9 batteries of light artillery, numbering in all25,695 men and officers present for duty equipped. The losses of the 5th Corps at the Wilderness, May 5th and6th, were 487 killed, 2817 wounded and 1828 missing. Total 5.132. From the 5th to the 20th of May a bloody and almost con-stant battle had been waged by both armies. The chance forrest was small, and the hardships and nerve strain put uponthe troops engaged were terrible. The loss on both sides wasin keeping with the desperate nature of the fighting. The number of killed, wounded an^J missing sinc

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