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Title: History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) Smith, John L., b. 1846, comp
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., J. L. Smith
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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submitted to thisfinal process of destruction. The cavalry cleared the enemy out of the way to the south-ward and picketed the roads to the north and east. GeneralGriffin relieved General Motts division, taking charge of thetrains on the morning of the 9th. A force with artillery was met and driven away from ThreeCreeks and the fire extinguished from the bridge which theenemy had attempted to destroy. Crossing a dismounted forceby 4 p. m., Gregg had possession of Bellfield and had driventhe enemy all across the Mcherrin. A sixty feet trestle overa branch of Three Creeks and another of 100 feet long overthe main stream—both old truss frames shored up from below—were burned and the destruction of the railway completed toBellfield. At Hicksford, on the south side of the Mcherrin, there werethree forts or batteries, connected by rifle pits, manned with aconsiderable force. It was impracticable to force a crossing, — 535 —and not practicable with the limited supplies—much of that
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TEARING UP THE WELDON RAILROAD. carried on the person had been already eaten up—to attempt — 536 — to turn the position. Without dislodging the enemy and gain-ing possession of the opposite bank it was not possible to de-stroy the bridge over the Meherrin. It was left standing. Allthe bridges and the railway track from the Nottaway to thatpoint having been destroyed, orders were issued for the returnon the following morning. The regiment worked hard at the rails and ties until mid-night passed and the moon was gone. It was nearly morn-ing, though, before the ground designated for the bivouac,in the vicinity of the trains, was reached, and but a few hourswere left until daylight for restful sleep. The field selected,overgrown with dead sage brush, after the morning broke, wasdiscovered to be on fire, and the roaring flames, making rapidheadway, drove the soldiers hurriedly to a neighboring wood.The heat was greater than could be comfortably borne, and theregiment was moved to a p

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