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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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the roadit was halted and faced to the front, upon the further edge of thetimber. This restored the formation as it was before the marchto the battle-field beg^an, brinsfinCT the 118th a^^ain on the ri^^ht.The 2d Brigade had preceded the 1st into the woods andleft so little space for it to occupy between its right and thebatteries that the 18th Massachusetts was necessarily thrownto the rear as a support, and the whole of the right wing ofthe 118th was refused to the right at a sharp right-angle. Asthe division was then posted, the 118th was the extreme rightregiment. Except the troops that had been in the peach orchard,which was but a short distance in front, and those on the Em-metsburg turnpike, the brigade was farther advanced than anytroops on the left had been or subsequently were during thebattle. As the line was established, a thin line of battle infront, not heavier than a strong skirmish line, taking it forgranted that it was relieved, withdrew. They were immedi- — 243 —
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— 244 — ately replaced by skirmishers from the brigade. During all thistime the firing had been very heavy in every direction, and themen, in eager expectancy of an assault, manifested such ananxiety for action that they were cautioned to restrain them-selves long enough, in case of attack, to permit the skirmishersto retire. They were kept but a moment in waiting. The in-creased activity of the guns, their loud and deafening roar,loud cries for canister, indicated, though his lines were still un-seen by the infantry, that the artillery had discovered theenemy and were determined to inflict prompt and damagingpunishment. It was ineffectual, and the onslaught, timed asat twenty minutes after four, terrible and severe, first fell uponthe left of the brigade. The musketry rolled in continuousroar, volley after volley was poured in heavily as nearer andnearer the enemy approached the right. The ground trembled,the trees shook and limbs quivered. Shell without cuttingfuse ! shouted Big

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