History of the 118th 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 '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

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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 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

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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 — 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 ...... 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

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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 Conflict — Captain Sharwood — M'Candless Wounded — "The Guide is Left! the Guide is Left!" — A Feint — The Assaulting Column — "Drop that Lanyard" — Capture of the Position — Killed and Wounded — Fifteen Hundred Prisoners, Four Guns, Seven Battle-Flags — The Devil in Command — "Odjutant, dot Horse nq Colic got" — "Hard Tack" — Major O'Neill — His New Uniform — " This is the Way we used to Dress in Ingee " An East Indian Parade — Battalion Review — " Halt, Disperse, and be d — d to you" 335

CHAPTER XIV. MINE RUN. The March — French's Blunder — " Look Sharp, Kelly ! " — Stealing a Wagon Train — A Spy Dies — Flankers — The Regiment Lost — An Abandoned House — Rations — A Comfortable Night — A Lost Pig Found — Connecting with the Enemy's Pickets — Pocketful of Flat Irons — A Delicate Position — Colonel Throop in Command — Finding Persimmons and the Enemy — DeVille— Mine Run— Cold Comfort— A Shell, Chaplain O'Neill, and a Cup of Coffee — Orders for the Charge — A Solemn Time — James W. Hyatt Lifted by a Solid Shot — Walter's Reconnaissance — The Retreat . . 353

CHAPTER XV. CAMP BARNES THE WINTER AT BEVERLY FORD. Third Winter of" the War— Soldiers' Fibs— The Sudden City— The Chapel-Amateur Theatricals — The Light of Cincinnati — Dainty Dishes — A Cube Meal — An Indignant Cook — Rats — Sergeant Nugent's Campaign — Albert DeVille's Sword Hand — Godwin's Musket — "The Homespun Dress" — Corporal Smith — "The Trusty Soldier and the Canteen of Whiskey" — Larry Mullen's Suavity — Captain Crocker Resigns — Captain Donegan Resigns — The Brigade Broken up — General Bartlett — Lincoln and the Generals — The Encampment Ends in Smoke ...... 376

CHAPTER XVL THE WILDERNESS — LAUREL HILL — SPOTTSYLVANIA. The Army Moves — Crosses the Rapidan — Movements of the Division — Griffin's Division Opens the Fight — General Bartlett's Narrow Escape —" K " persuades a Battery to Remain — Colonel Gwyn Wounded — Loss of the Il8th — A Fruitless Fight — A Woeful Night — Forest Fires and the Wounded — General Wadsworth's Death — Musketry Fighting — Colonel Herring and the Johnny — The Army Unwinds Itself — Colonel Herring Commands the Pickets — March by Brock's Road — Movements — Colonel Herring Successfully Resists a Desperate Charge — Makes Arrangements to Retain his Position — Severe Loss — Sergeant Fryer Wounded — General Warren's Compliment to Colonel Herring — General Sedgwick Killed — From the Wilderness to Spotsylvania — A Touching Incident — Movements on the loth — Country around Spotsylvania — Damp Reflections — " Where's the Ii8th?" — Heavy Fighting — Success — Carrying Ammunition — Dispatch to Colonel Herring — Night of the 13th —

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Halt in the Night March — A Vivid Contrast — The Ny — Enemy's Entrenchments — Picket Firing — Peculiar Skirmishing — Visitors to the Front — Wray's Experience — Advance Of the 18th — Tapping the Corps — Imprudent Johnnies .... 395

CHAPTER XVII. NORTH ANNA — BETHESDA CHURCH — COLD HARBOR. The 5th Corps Moves — Both Armies Moving Southward — Telegraph Road — An Air of Comfort and Ease — Capturing a Major — Successful Foraging — Paddy Mulchay and the Goose — Dog Robbers, Pot Wrestlers, Coffee Coolers — A False Real Alarm — Ned Wolfenden and the Mule — Corporal Smith to the Front — The Enemy's Advance Checked — A Decoy and Vengeance — Matthew's House — Cutting the Virginia Central Railroad — " By the Left Flank" — Mongohick Church — Henry Clay's Birthplace — Entrenching — Advancing and Covering — Heavy Skirmishing — A Resolute Attack — Cold Harbor— Bethesda Church — An Interrupted Dinner — " Mark Time, Kelly ! " — Lenoir's Battle — Corporal Smith to the Rear; and with the Regulars — Capture of the Fairies — Colonel Herring Covers his Regiment — A Tremendous Battle — Walter's Captures — Lieutenant Ware — Successful Ruse — Shady Grove Church Road — Ashbrook and Moore — Chickahominy Swamp — Shelling the Wrong Place — Friendliness ..... 434

CHAPTER XVIII PETERSBURG — WELDON RAILROAD PEEBLE's FARM. A Long Wait — Feint towards Richmond — Failure to Seize Petersburg — Crossings of the Chickahominy — Pontoon Bridge — Looking after River Front — Water Famine — Washing in Creation — A Dig for Cover and a Dig for Water — Assault on Petersburg — Beauregard's Withdrawal — The Hare House — " Piles of Dead " — Colonel Chamberlain Wounded — Commencing the Siege — Works around Petersburg — Sergeant Nugent's Well — Friendly Pickets — A Facsimile Letter — A Cowardly Act and its Punishment — " Yanks, Don't Fire! the Hull Thing's a Mistake" — Breastworks — Fort Hell and Fort Damnation — Building Bomb- proofs — An Improved Construction is a Failure — Pud's Supper — Desertion by Brigade — Amnesty Proclamation — Careless Exposure — Artillery Practice — Burnside Mine Explodes — Sergeant Nugent's Wisdom — The Colored Troops — Dodging —Movement to Weldon Railroad — Brutality — Artillery to the Front — Flowers House — A Deserved Reprimand — Major Hopper's Account of Engagement — Smith and the Grape Jelly — Buzzing Bees — Horse- Racing — Sheridan Routs Early — Fort McRae Captured .471

CHAPTER XIX. THE Hatcher's RUN OF OCTOBER, 1864 — HICKSFORD AND BELLE- FIELD, WELDON RAILROAD, RAID — DABNEY's MILLS. General Warren's Report — An Early Start — Forest Fighting — Colonel Herring Commands Skirmishers, and Checks the Enemy — Deceived Innocence — The Capture and Escape — Disguised — Notice to Quit — Move to Destroy Railways — Destruction — Confederate Artillery Driven Off — A Barrel of Sorghum: Sergeant Paschall Bathes in it; Likewise Tom Gabe — A Social Time — The Colonel's Traps and their Fate — Dew of the Orchard — Done — Guerillas — General Order 65 — Furloughs — Executions — Robert Ruffin — Composition of Brigade — Intercepting Supplies — Turkey Chase — Hatcher's Run — The Enemy Driven — The Regiment Engaged — Captains Scott and Bayne Wounded — Colonel Herring Wounded ; He Loses his Leg — Cold Comfort — Extract from General Warren's Report — Getting Ready for the Final Plunge . . . 526

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CHAPTER XX. WHITE OAK RIDGE — GRAVELLY RUN FIVE FORKS APPOMATTOX. The Beginning of the End — Griffin's Division — An Abominable March and Successful Fighting — Taunting the Johnnies — Five Forks and Nothing to Eat — A Break through the Brigade — Brigade Joins Sheridan — Capture of Return Works — Capture McGregor's Battery — 118th Looks after Prisoners — Corporal Fletcher Killed — Griffin's Captives — The Sound of Battle — Unfortunate Sutlers — The Famous Race — High Bridge — Dispatch from Sheridan — General Chamberlain — Report of Surrender — Lee's Surrender — Microscopic Rations — Confederate Arms — "Didn't we Give it to you at Shepherdstown ! " — The Foolish Wise — Remembrance of John Brown — Gathering Arms and Stores — Seasoned Meat — Relics — The Last Picket Line — Empty Hopes and Stomachs — Assassination of the President — Difficulty with Colored Troops — Hodge's Diary — Closing Thoughts . . 560

CHAPTER XXI SOUTHERN PRISONS. Confederate Sanitary Commission — Close Quarters — A North Carolina Conscript — Conscience and Corn Cakes — Andersonville — Shelter — Location — Rations — The Stockade — Cook House — Water — Filth — Belle Islanders — Dead Line — Cleanliness — Soap — Tents — Thousands Shelterless — Broadways — Vendors — Running the Blockade — Gambling — Theft — Execution of Raiders — Punishment of Thieves — Escape — Tunneling — Wells — Wood Rations — Sickness — Doctor's Call — Medicines — Dead House — Dead Wagons — Burial Ground — Increase of Prisoners — Addition to Stockade — Ovens — Beans and Bugs — Fourth of July — Scene at the Gate — Prison Hospital — Death of Fullerton — Removal of Prisoners — Stockade at Millen — Blackshear — Florence — A Lost Dog — Christmas Dinner — Hospital at Goldsboro — Now or Never — Our Flag ......

APPENDIX. Laurel Hill and Sheridan's Raid — A Few Prison Reminiscences — William H. Henning's Prison Experience — Religious Aspect of the 118th — Brief History of the Army Hospital and its Work — Gettysburg versus Waterloo — Appetite of an Army Mule — A Strange Premonition — Old Big Feet — April Thirteenth, 1865 — Who was the Color-Bearer? — The Surrender of General Lee — Flag of Truce at Appomattox — The Private — Circular . . . 657

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