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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, comp
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., J. L. Smith
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ry about Spottsylvania Court-House is inter-spersed with open fields, and the ridges and knolls are promi-nent. Where the timber still stood it was of the same dense,impenetrable character as in the Wilderness. Between theBrock Road and the road from Fredericksburg to Spottsylva-nia Court-House there are no connecting roadways, and all themovements made towards the enemys right and back againwere conducted across country, except where occasional planta-tion roads intervened. The enemy had control of all the mainhighways, and his movements were facilitated by easier travel,interior and shorter lines. In front of all his intrenchments inthe woods he had slashed the timber and in the open con-structed abatis. The farms, Alsops, Landrums, Sheltons,Browns, McCools and others now historically familiar as thescenes of some of the distinctively severe assaults, were large,all of them plantations of four hundred acres and upwards.The nearer the Court-House the more open is the country. 419 —
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— 420 To the eastward and southward it was generally all clearedland, and timber was the exception. Except a light shower on the 7th the weather had been clearand generally unusually warm. On the nth rain fell heavily,and the storm continued throughout the night. During theday there was no positive demonstration. The skirmisherswere pressed close against the enemy. Active firing followed,

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