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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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rmth and cooking withfragments of broken furniture. Pianos, their harmoniousstrings displaced, were utilized as horse-troughs, and, amid allthe dangers, animals quietly ate from them. There was a mo-mentary, irresistible desire to seek some shelter from the havocof the guns in the deserted houses. It was manfully conqueredand the men heroically held to their places. The march was continued under all the dreadful shellingalong what was apparently the main thoroughfare, which ran ata right angle to the river, to a street that crossed it parallelwith the stream, and on towards the farther edge of the city.Turning into this street there was a halt for some time in lineof battle, closed well up to the sidewalk. Upon the side of thestreet nearest the enemy some protection was afforded from theshower of death-dealing missiles that had poured down so re-lentlessly from the moment of entering the town ; but bricks,window-shutters and shingles, struck by the shells and solid shot, — 123 N^V^^
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ADVANCE THROUGH THE STREETS OF FREDERICKSBURG. flew around unceasingly. Opposite tlic centre, in the rear,was a house that had been most roughly handled. It was — 124 — evidently the residence of some person of culture and refine-ment. Several solid shots had passed through the upper roomsand a shell, bursting in the library, had made bricks, mortarand books a heap of rubbish. A tastefully bound copy of Ivanhoe which had escaped the wreck tempted the literarytastes of an officer, and he picked it up, intending that it shouldhelp to while away an hour of loneliness in some quieter time.Light as was the load, he soon became weary of it and hisbook was abandoned. The dashing charge over the level plain, the determined ad-vance against breastworks lined with threatening bayonets, thesplendid resistance to colunms of assault, are tests of courageand endurance of frequent occurrence. It is seldom, however,that the metal of men is tested in column in the crowdedstreets, where there can b

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