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 IllustrationsJ. L. Smith, 1905 - 746 pages |
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HIST OF THE CORN EXCHANGE REGI United States Army Pennsylvania Infant,John L. B. 1846 Smith, Comp No preview available - 2016 |
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118th Pennsylvania 1st Michigan 20th Maine 3d Brigade 5th Corps A. P. Hill abandoned advance afternoon Antietam appeared arms army artillery assault attack Ayres's battalion battery battle of Shepherdstown bivouac bluff breastworks Brevet camp Captain cavalry close Colonel column command Company Confederate continued Corn Exchange Court-House cover creek Crocker crossed direction distance duty enemy enemy's engaged entire fell field fight fire Fitz-John Porter flank followed force ford Fredericksburg front Griffin Griffin's division ground guns halted Harper's Ferry Hatcher's Run head-quarters Hill horse infantry killed Lieutenant line of battle loss ment miles morning moved movement musket musketry night o'clock officer opportunity passed pickets Plank Road position Potomac Prevost ravine reached rear rebel regiment returned river Sergeant Sharpsburg shell Shepherdstown shot side skirmish line soldiers soon stream Sykes timber tion troops Union Vaughan Road vicinity Virginia volunteers Warren woods wounded
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Page 203 - SOLDIER'S DREAM. Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.
Page 482 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 136 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 136 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 136 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 137 - For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Page 257 - For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers ; and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 149 - It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
Page 556 - Hospital, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. He was mustered out with the regiment.
Page 136 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.