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 (14576057548)

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Title: 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 addenda
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) Smith, John L., b. 1846
Subjects: United States. Army Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1861-1965) 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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THE NEWPUBLIC TlLUaNfOUNUATlONJ HISTORY 11 8th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION—CAMP UNION—FORTS ALBANY AND COCHRAN. And blessed is a country with stout hearts like these; The tramp of her armies is swelling the breeze.They rush to her rescue, their livesfreely give—Twere better to die than in bondage to live. promising results anticipated fromthe majestic advance of the splen-didly appointed Potomac Army fromYorktown to the Chickahominy in thespring of 1862 were speedily dissipated.Williamsburg had tested the capacityof the Union soldiery for vigorous as-sault, while Fair Oaks and Seven Pineswere assurances of ability for indomita-ble resistance. Then for a month therewas ominous quiet, while the lines ofbeleaguerment were maintained aboutthe Confederate capital, when suddenlyupon the exposecf right fell the over-whelming shock of Gaines Mill andMechanicsville. The famous Seven-Days battles followed, with all theirvalor and all their fatalities, and concluding re