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Title: History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war of the rebellion--1862-1863; regimental re-unions, 1885-1906; history of monument;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Infantry. 124th Regiment, 1862-1863 Green, Robert McCay, 1842- , comp
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Pennsylvania Infantry 124th
Publisher: Philadelphia, Ware bros. company, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of State, which enclosed his commission, says: I donot know but you should feel a little proud to have received iton the field; upon a proof of your true soldiership, than to haveobtained it in advance of any opportunity to have displayed yourqualities. I cannot refrain from saying to you what has beenreported to me by many in your regiment, privates and officers,that your conduct and valor were praised by all. At the expiration of term of service, he returned to Chesterand resumed his profession as architect. He was a member of Wilde Post, No. 25, G. A. R., and servedthe city of Chester as Chief of Police for two terms. He died in Chester, November 27th, 1884, and was buried withmilitary honors at Media Cemetery. Litzenberg Post, No. 480, of Clifton Heights, was named inhis honor, and as a mark of appreciation, his family presentedthe Post with his cherished sword. Upon the disbandment of thePost this relic was deposited with Bradbury Post, No. 149, ofMedia, where it now remains. 106
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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I24TH REGT. REMIXISCENX^E. William G. Kxowlks, Sergeant of Company M, nnder date ofJanuary 12, 1907, furnished the historian with the following: As we approached the Antietam battlefield, he was so muchimpressed with the belief that he would be wounded in the fig hi,that he took up the different parts of his body in detail, selectingthe part that would inconvenience him least from a wound, auidfinally selected the left arm. We had just arrived at the front; the regiment was on its knees,and as we turned to look down the line, the enemy opened anenfilading fire from a battery on right of our line, got our rangeat once, and a shell in passing grazed his left arm. l:)reaking thebone and bruising the flesh to the bone, the circular motion ofthe shell tearing his clothing into strips. He was taken to the rearand lay twenty-four hours without attention ; becoming so stiftenedhe was unable to move his body, proving to him the left armtheory was a fiction. He was carted to

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