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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
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) 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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dissipated the flippant treatment with which thepreliminary directions had been received, and, amid somebustle and confusion, the regiment was without delay in line,awaiting the order to march. The sun, great and round, rose ominously red. Camp-fixt-ures were to remain standing and the troops to be equipped inlight-marching order only. The soldiers had not yet conceivedthat much was intended beyond a reconnoissance in heavy force.This, though, was one of those hopeful conceptions to drive offthe notion that there would be a fight. The company cooks were metamorphosed; that is, theseprofessional gentlemen had been promoted to the ranks, ex-changed their ladles for muskets and cartridge-boxes, and weregiven an opportunity to pepper the enemies of their countryinstead of the bean soup. One of chem, whose rotund form andunctuous face made his usual occupation unmistakable, hearingthe boom of the heavy guns, asked what the noise was. He was answered : The rebel artillery. (112) — 113 —
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— 114 — You fellers neednt think you can fool me. Ive heardthat noise too often in Philadelphia; theyre unloading boardssomewhere. Afterward, when the man of pots and pans heard the screechof the shells and saw them falling in the river near the engi-neers who were laying the pontoons, he went lumbering to therear as though he had forgotten something, and his oleaginousform faded in the distance. At seven oclock the column was in motion, not in thefamiliar direction towards Hartwood Church, but by theshortest and most practicable route to Falmouth and the Rap-pahannock. Evidences were everywhere abroad of preparationfor desperate and bloody work. Ambulance trains were parkedin every direction; every safe and readily accessible locationwas occupied by hospital tents. Stretchers in unlimited sup-ply were being hurried to the front for immediate use. Fresh,clean straw, neatly bundled, had been distributed where thewounded were to be brought for treatment. The thunder ofthe guns conti

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