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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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ell besuspended. Those who had the experience of active serviceadvised against such investments. There advice was not onlyunheeded, but it was strongly intimated that it was promptedby motives of parsimony. These mess-chests, though, reallygot farther on their way than those better acquainted hadexpected. It was confidently believed that the depot at Wash-ington would .see the last of them. Some, however, reachedFrederick City. There the last survivor was abandoned. Oneby one they had been dropped along the road, and were neverheard of afterwards. On the 8th of September, the command moved to a dry,sloping hill-side, in the vicinity of Fort Cochran. Anotherfour days of similar exacting instruction followed, and thenbegan the sterner calls of duty. All else was soon absorbedin the march, the picket, the battle and bivouac; and so it w^entuntil the end had accomplished the full purpose of the soldiersmission, and he had once more found his home in a citizenshiphe had helped make secure.
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Major 118th Regt. P. V. Brevet Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols. - 1 . i:. IN L V s/ --. O 1^ K PUBLIC LIBRARY. ASTO.f, LENOX ANDTILD^N FOUNDATIONS. CHAPTER II. ANTIETAM. ON the 12th the regimental individuahty was measurably-lost through its absorption into the combinations neces-sary in the management of great armies and the condiict of grandcampaigns. The brigade to which it was allotted had bornethe crucial test of the Peninsular battles and the Second BullRun, and the laurels it had gathered were not to be dimmedby the conduct of the ii8th, which so soon showed its valorin the hard fighting at Shephcrdstown. The brigade, the 1st of the ist Division of the 5th Corps,was commanded by Brigadier-General John H. Martindale, thedivision by Major-Gencral George W. Morrell, and the corpsby Major-General Fitz John Porter. The brigade was com-posed of the 22d Massachusetts Volunteers, Lieutenant-ColonelWm. S. Tilton commanding; the i8th Massachusetts, ColonelJames Barnes; the 13th New York, Colonel E

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