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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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rn base of Round Topand well to the Union left of the battle-field. General Griffin, who had arrived on the field during the en-gagement and who refused to relieve General Barnes, now re-sumed command of his division. General Barnes had been severely wounded on the secondday of the battle, but still kept the field. On the 9th, forced toyield to surgical treatment, he relinquished the command ofthe brigade and, though he subsequently returned for a time,never afterwards participated in so great an engagement.With the brigade he had won honors and fame, secured theesteem and confidence of his subordinates and the admirationand regard of his soldiers. He justly deserved the considera-tion shown him by General Griffin, who arrived amid the heatof the contest and declined to assume command until the battlewas over. Griffin considerately remarked : To you, GeneralBarnes, belongs the honor of the field ; you began the battlewith the division, and shall fight it to the end. Barness sol- (272)
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— 273 — dierly form is best remembered as at Gettysburg he rodevaliantly amid the thickest of the fray, encouraging, persuad-ing, directing, with that same courageous judgment which hadever been his distinguishing characteristic. A few days after the battle of Gettysburg numerous car-riages from Baltimore and other towns in Maryland visited thehospital, bringing with them delicacies, jellies, wines, etc., in-tended exclusively for the Confederate soldiers in the hospitals.The latter were receiving the same care and attention as ourown soldiers, getting a part of the supplies furnished by theSanitary and Christian Commissions. It was most provokingto observe the preference for the Confederate wounded by theseSouthern sympathizers; consequently the surgeon determinedto put a stop to it and directed that all such things should beleft at the hospital supply tent, where all might receive a shareat the proper time. A guard was therefore placed at theprincipal approach to the hospital, w

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