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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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or their exposure. Sergeant Geo. W. Stotsenberg, of Company K, turned thecartridges out of his box into his cap, loaded, knelt upon one kneewaited, and, whenever ahead appeared above the stone wall,blazed away at it, and reloaded. He kept his position for morethan two hours, and though the bullets sang about his ears andploughed little furrows in the ground before him, he was noteven touched. Captain Crocker could not long brook this forced restraint.He had suffered greatly from his close confinement. Angeredbeyond endurance at the foe who kept him thus confined, hethrew a taunting menace in their teeth. About noon, saying — 133 — naught to any one, he rose suddenly from his place, seized thecolors, advanced with them a few paces to the front, andjammed the staff well into the ground, shaking his fistangrily and firing a round of epithets in no polite or culturedstrain. His greetings were responded to in language equallycultured, accompanied by a volley of balls. His temerity lost
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CAPTAIN LEMUEL L. CROCKER. him nothing except the emptying of his canteen, which wasstruck. Lieutenant Kelley, who was close beside him, observedthe contents escaping to the ground, and before Crocker wasaware of what he was losing, rose to his knees, placed the holeto his lips, and drained whatever remained to the dregs. Kelleygot a ball, if Crocker did not. — 134 — Captain Bankson was not to be outdone by this daring featof Crockers, and he followed with one of like temerity. Heleft his place, proceeded to where the colors had been planted,seized them, waved them several times defiantly at the enemy,and then returned. A similar salute of musketry greeted him,but he, too, escaped unharmed. It has been observed that the human voice was sometimes sodrowned by the din of battle that the utterance of commands wasuseless. Successful obedience only followed close observanceand apt attention. Any inattention or failure to comprehend whatwas likely to be done frequently separated the bes

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