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1 History of the 118Th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Corn Exchange Regiment) from Their First Engagement at Antietam to Appomattox History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Corn Exchange Regiment) from their First Engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. Philadelphia: J. J. Smith, 1905. CHAPTER I. CAMP UNION. Resolutions of the Corn or Commercial Exchange— Organization of the Regiment — Interest taken in the Regiment by the Exchange — Letter from Governor Curtin, after Shepherdstown — Colonel Prevost — Camp Union— The First Guard — The Misfit — The Awkward Squad— Bacon, Hard Tack, and Salt Pork — The Battalion Drill — The Untrained Sentry — Absence without Leave — Roll Call — Rations — The Day's Work— Pranks— Divine Service—A Gift Dress Parade — Journey to Washington — The Soldier's Retreat — The Government Corral — Bivouac at Arlington Heights — Fort Albany— Enriched Water — The Meal Chest — Fort Corcoran 1 CHAPTER II ANTIETAM. The Regiment Brigaded— Colonel Barnes—" Comrades, Touch the Elbow " — The March from Fort Corcoran — Bivouac at Silver Springs — Diminution of Baggage—" Where is the I i8th ? "—Battle of " the Monocacy"— Sounds of Conflict — John Monteith— Charge upon the Hogs—" I Can't Eat a College "—Signs of War— Thirsty Soldiers— A Martial Display— Monument Hill— Moving Columns— The Army Loosened— The Battle — The Irish Brigade — Burnside's Charge— Horrors of War— An Uncomfortable Line — Sharp-Shooting — "Are There any Rebels About Here?" — Lee's Retreat —Carrying off the Wounded— Sharpsburg— Blackford's Ford . 25 CHAPTER III. SHEPHERDSTOWN. The Advance— Fording the Stream — Ascending the Bluff— Hanging Horses —Order to Retreat— Steady Behavior of the Men— Galling Fire— Defective Enfield Rifles— Private Joseph Meehan's Description of the Guns ; Colonel Prevost's Description — Number of Confederates Engaged— Close Fighting— Colonel Prevost Advances with the Colors— Colonel Prevost Wounded — An Awful Scene — Death of Captain" Ricketts — The Retreat — The Old Mill — Saving the Colors — Killed by Our Own Men — Incidents of the Retreat — Lieutenant White Killed — West's Close Call — Incidents of the Fight — " Oh ! Captain Ricketts ! "— Doubt About a Quinine Pill — " Give it to them, Boys ! " — Lieutenant Crocker's Flag of Truce — " Shell and be d — d ! " — Crocker and the Confederate General — Major Herring and the Regulars — Joseph Meehan's Story — Dr. Joseph Thomas's Narrative — Sergeant Peck's Experience as a Prisoner — The 118th Regiment — One of Stonewall Jackson's Staff Visits his Folks 54 CHAPTER IV. FROM SHEPHERDSTOWN TO FREDERICKSBURG. Houseless and Homeless — Examining the Doctor — On the March Again — Bivouac at Bryant's Farm — Maryland Heights — Crossing the Potomac — In the Shenandoah Valley — A Rich Country — " Goose Creek " —Supplies Needed — Snicker's Gap — Court-Martial on a Pig — Yankee Trading — Empty Pockets — George Slow, and his Visit Home — The Famine at Snicker's Gap — A Life of Emergencies — Ostracism by the Southerners — On the March in a Snowstorm — White Plains — At Warrenton — A Chaplain's Call — McClellan Relieved of Command — Removal of Fitz-John Porter — " Red Warrior " — A Muddy Waste — Belle Plain 95 1 CHAPTER V. FREDERICKSBURG. Promotion to the Ranks — " Unloading Boards" — Signs of Battle — " Stafford Heights" — Marye's Heights — Attempts to Lay the Pontoons — Crossing the River in Boats — The Pontoons Laid — Crossing — A Thrilling Scene — A Game of Euchre — The Regiment Crosses the River — View of the Confederate Position — Slaughter — Diving for Tobacco — Sack of the City — Charge over the Plain — Scipio Africanus Rises — Moving to the Front — The Brickyard — Major Herring Wounded — "This is What we Came Here for" — Coolness of Colonel Barnes — The Corner Store and Something in it — Sunday Morning — Sergeant Stotzenberg — A Prohibition Bullet — Losses in the Battle — The Regiment Relieved from the Front — Retreat of the Army — Was it a Blunder? 112 CHAPTER VI. WINTER-QUARTERS — RICHARD'S FORD RECONNOISSANCE — MUD MARCH. A Military Town — Potomac Creek Bridge — Decorations — Fuel — Amusements — Military Etiquette and Loaded Arms — Weeding out Incompetents — Discipline — Colonel Gwyn in Command — ^Picket Duty — Preparation of a Virginia Family Dinner — Something Suspicious — Investigating the Country — A Cavalry Vedette — Scipio Africanus Receives the Parade — A Sad Ending to Scipio's Greatness — A Reconnaissance — Beans Cooked for Five Miles — Crossing the Rappahannock — A Treacherous Raft — A Wounded Girl — The Dame at the Spring — A Confederate Postman — The Return —The Old Year Out — A Battle-line of Ducks — -An Army of Crows — Boxes from Home Sent by the Corn Exchange — Peculiar Tastes — An Unfinished Task — Mud March — The Second Deluge — Three Miles a Day — Stuck — The Wager and its Consequences — Campaign Abandoned . 140 CHAPTER VII. CHANCELLORSVILLE. Return of Colonel Prevost — Condition of the Army — General Hooker in Command — "Joe" Hooker is our Leader — Extra Clothing and Eight Days' Rations — Woollen Lined Roads — Crossing at Kelly's Ford on Canvas Pontoons — Fording the Rapidan — The Farthest Stretch — Travelling Through the Woods — The Chancellor House; Rescuing the Inmates — Hospitalities of the Country" — Meeting the Enemy — A Quiet Stare —A Controlling Position — Disappointment — Dr. Owens Complimented by the Confederates — Army Head-quarters — General Hooker's Order — Egyptian Plague — Beginning of the Fight — Thompson's Tobacco — Withdrawal of the Brigade — Scipio Africanus Surrounded — Drawing in the Pickets — Rout of the nth Corps — The Rebel Charge — Scarcity of Rations— Shelling the Hospital — General Griffin's Bowling — Wounded Horses — Woods on Fire — Casualties — Death of General Whipple — Peter Haggerty — Treed — Captain O'Neill's Eccentricity and Bravery — Retaking the Line — "A Bit of a Talk" — Explosive Cartridges — Captain O'Neill's Candle — The Storm — Withdrawal of the Army and the Pickets — Pursuit — March to Camp — Blue and Gold — Dropping Out — Chris's Ride — Another Blunder. 165 2 CHAPTER VIII. AFTER CHANCELLORSVILLE CAMP AT GOLD MINE FARM — MIDDLEBURG — UPPERVILLE. Scipio Africanus Vanishes — General Griffin and the Adjutant — The Captain's Jacket — Whoopers — Guarding the 25th New York — Presentation to General Barnes — " By George, Sir, You're an Orderly" — Retirement of Colonel Prevost — Strong Picket Line — Gold Mine Farm — Cavalry Fight at Brandy Station — A Compromise on Fence Rails — Manassas Plains — Intense Heat and Scarcity of Water — Gum Springs — Goose Creek Again — Fight at Aldie — Middleburg — Capture of Stuart's Horse Artillery — Cavalry Charges — The " Hooker's Retreat " — Mosby's " Happy Hunting Ground " — Dark Days ......... 210 CHAPTER IX. GETTYSBURG. Suspense at the North — March to Gettysburg — " An Army with Banners" — Leesburg — Fording the Monocacy — A Remarkable Spring — " Old Four Eyes" — Frederick City — Region of Abundance — Disobedience Means Death — General Sykes and the Irishman — In Pennsylvania — York — Hanover — Visitors — A High Private — The First Day's Fight — A Canard — In the Fight — Holding Little Round Top — The Wheat-Field — The Roar of Battle — Bigelow's Battery — An Unwilling Recruit — Steady Work — Change of Front — Orderly Retirement — The Trostle House Fight — Death of Captain Davids — Georgia Prisoners — Major Herring and the Colors — Charge of the Pennsylvania Reserves — Dr. Thomas's Description of Second Day's Fight — The Last Day — The Devil's Den — Seminary Ridge — A Confederate Officer's Mistake — Horrors of Battle — The Crisis — The Charge — The Re- pulse — The Victory — " Go and Fight Somewhere Else " — A Famous Rabbit — Bigelow's Battery — Brady's Hundred Rounds and his Gun — Importance of Battle of Gettysburg ....... 229 CHAPTER X. FROM GETTYSBURG TO WARRENTON. General Barnes Wounded — Delicacies for Confederate Prisoners — Surgeon Thomas's Order — Indignant Visitors — Identifying a Leg — Corporal Smith and the Goose — A Missing Father — The Goose is Cooked and Taken to Camp — Attempts at Carving — The Goose Victorious — Advancing — Quartermaster Gardner — Chaplain O'Neill and General Meade — Lieutenant Binney — Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching — Recruiting — Keystone Battery — Up the Mountain — Fighting for over Fifty Days . 272 CHAPTER XI AROUND WARRENTON — BEVERLY FORD — EXECUTION OF FIVE DESERTERS. Sunday-morning Inspection — Wrong Ammunition — A Facetious Bugler — Recruits for the Regiment — Bounty-jumpers — Quaker Recruits — Heat and Insects — A Dangerous Bath — Heroic Rescue — The Five Deserters — Their Trial — Sentence — Death-watch — Execution — Horse-racing — Captain Crocker's Mansion ; it is Warmed — Captain Donegan's Picket Line — General Sykes and the Picket — " You're got Mosby ! " — A Brave Deserter — The Patton House, Reception at — Jealousy and its Consequences . '290 CHAPTER XII Lee's movement, etc. Fight at Bristoe Station — Raccoon Ford — The Maple Grove — Captain Donaldson and the Lady — The Captain's Confederate Brother — Information Gained — Brandy Station — General Griffin and the Battery — Beverly Ford — Martial Display — Back to Brandy Station — A Busy Day for the 5th Corps — Stuart's Cavalry Mixed up with Union 3 Forces — Attack at Broad Run — Monaghan, of "I," and the Ditch — Movement of the 2d Corps — Centreville — Fairfax Court-House — Shields, of " H " — Bull Run Battle-field — Uncovered Remains — Grave of Colonel Fletcher Webster — Captain Bankson's Album — Buckton — The Road that did not go — Major Herring's pro- motion — Chilly Times — "Joe" Hooker's Retreat ..... 312 CHAPTER XIII RAPPAHANNOCK STATION. The " General " — Destruction and Ruin — A Lunette — Signs of Approaching
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