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 (14762735105)

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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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ountry betweenthe two lines to the left of the Union centre, covering a scopeof some two square miles. Immediately in front for some halfmile was thick timber, concealing the rocks, stones, caves andboulders that made up the well-named, weird, forsaken anddesolate Devils Den. Through this, and extending to theright beyond it, coursed a sluggish stream of width and volumescarce sufficient to dignify it with a name, called Plum Run.Its waters were not confined to its channel, but spread out in enough. Ambulances simultaneously arrived, and tlie wounded were again placedin them and taken to a more remote point back on Rock Creek, where tents weresubsequently pitched to shelter them. In lifting them upon the conveyances, itwas discovered that many were dead. The removal from the place was accom-plished none too soon, for as the last load was moving off, shells and solid shotbegan to fall in formidable numbers on the place. 255 — swamp and bog over loamy ground grown rank in a tall swamp

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ROUND TOP. grass. Beyond this growth of timber in its front to the Union — 256 — left, the country rolled off in open, arable, cultivated lands untilit was interrupted by the timber crowning the other crest. Sem-inary Ridge, which the enemy occupied. The enemys lineswere distant, all along his front, about three-quarters of a mile.The ridge he held ran almost parallel with that occupied by theUnion forces, until it reached beyond Round Top, where itdeflected to his front, terminating not far from the base, andalmost on the flank, of that mountain. It was much lower,and in no sense commanded it. The Emmetsburg road, abroad, well-made turnpike, extended the entire distance betweenthe two lines, but was nearest the Union line. Along it, andelsewhere over the scene, fine old-fashioned farm-houses, withlarge, substantial barns, stables and out-buildings, dotted theundulating lands. Just at the season of wheat harvest, thewhole country teemed with abundant crops, ripening to a richmatur

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