History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers: Corn Exchange Regiment, 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, with AddendaJ.L. Smith, 1905 - 743 pages |
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118th Pennsylvania 20th Maine 5th Corps 91st Regt A. P. Hill advance Andersonville army artillery assault battery battle of Shepherdstown Beverly Ford bivouac Brevet brigade camp Camp Union Captain Captured at Cold Captured at Shepherdstown cavalry Cold Harbor Colonel column command Company Confederate crossed detachment direction Discharged for disability distance division Drafted duty enemy enemy's engaged fell fight fire flank followed force Fredericksburg front further record Gettysburg Griffin ground guns halted head-quarters horse infantry James John July 15 July 31 June Killed at Shepherdstown Lieutenant line of battle ment miles morning moved movement Mustered night o'clock officer passed Petersburg Phila pickets Plank Road position Potomac prisoners Promoted ranks reached rear rebel regiment returned river sergeant Sharpsburg shell shot side soldiers soon stockade timber tion Transferred troops vicinity Volunteers Warren Wilderness William woods Wounded at Shepherdstown
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Page 229 - 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 164 - 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 526 - 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 164 - 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. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like.
Page 164 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appears 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.
Page 164 - Only those generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders.
Page 175 - 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 645 - Hospital, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. He was mustered out with the regiment.
Page 434 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 164 - 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. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it ; and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.