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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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egardlessof their terrible loss, they took the places allotted them inthe boats and pushed them into the stream. They were rapidlypulled across, the galling fire continuing until a landing effectedupon the other side in a measure silenced it. This brilliantachievement of the 7th Michigan and 19th Massachusetts, inthe presence of the large audience on the bluffs, crowned theseregiments with enduring fame.* The laying of the bridges * There was, probably, no such fighting done during the war in the streets of acity as the 19th Massachusetts did in Fredericksburg on the night of DecemberII, 1862. Palfrys Antietam and Fredericksburg contains a most graphic de-scription of it by Captain Hall. The following letter, sent to one of the papersby the lieutenant-colonel of the 19th Massachusetts, shows the part that regimenttook in the assault: A member of the old fighling 19th handed me a copy of the August Centurycontaining General Couchs article on Sumners Right Grand Division, and, plac- Il6
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— 117 — soon followed, but it was late in the afternoon before they werefitted for a passage. It did not fall to the lot of our division to cross that night,and about five oclock it retired a mile or so for a bivouac near ing his finger on that portion of it where the crossing of the river in boats is spokenof, said, in tones of biiteniess : A twinge here, pointing to what was left of a oncegood leg, remintls nie that the old 19th was around at that time, and I swear itdoes seem too bad that we should not at least receive a little credit from our com-mander at that time. It may have been an oversight or forgetfulness on the partof General Couch, but the incidents of that crossing, so far as the 19th was con-cerned, will bear repetition, if for no other purpose than to make history correct. During the bombardment of the morning of the nth, volunteers were calledfor to lead what seemed to be a forlorn hope—to cross the river in open boats un-der fire from an opposing line of infan

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