Tour Stop 3 - 124th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry South of Cornfield, Facing North Colonel Joseph W. Hawley Sept. 17, 1862 Antietam Chancellorsville May 1-2-3, 1863
Recruited in Chester and Delaware Counties August 1862 for Nine Months Service
Erected by State of Pennsylvania and Survivors Association 1904 Casualties at Antietam Killed 5 Wounded 42 Missing 17 Total 64

Tour Stop 2 - 8th Regt. Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps,Facing Northeast
37th Regiment of the line 8th Pa. Reserve Vol. Inf. Major Silas M. Baily, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Div., 1st Corps Advanced about 600 yards south and became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division
Loss at Antietam Killed 12 Wounded 44Engagements Mechanicsville, Va., June 26, 1862 Gaines Mill, Va., June 27, 1862 Charles City Cross Road, Va., June 30, 1862 Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862 Second Bull Run, Va., Aug. 28, 29 & 30, 1862 South Mountain, Md., Sept. 14, 1862 Antietam, Md., Sept. 16 and 17, 1862 Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862 Wilderness, Va., May 5 to 17, 1864 Spotsylvania, Va., May 5 to 17, 1864 Present at Dranesville, Bristoe Station, Chantilly
Recruited Co. "A" Armstrong County; Co "B" Dauphin County; Cos. "C" & "E" Alleghany county; Cos. "D" & "G" Fayette County; Co. "F" Bedford County; co. "H" Clarion County; Co. "K" Washington County; Co. "I" Green County. Mustered into United States Service July 29, 1861, at Meridian Hill, D.C.; mustered out at Pittsburg May 24, 1864.
Summary Total enlistment, 1062; killed and died of wounds 158; total killed and wounded 490, captured and missing 147. Died of disease and accidents in prison 68. Virtue, Liberty and Independence |
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Tour Stop 3 - 128th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 1st Brigade 1st Division 12th Corps South of Cornfield, facing N Location 315 feet North Casualties at Antietam Killed 26 Wounded 86 Missing 6 Total 118 Recruited in Berks, Lehigh and Bucks Counties Battles participated in Antietam Chancellorsville Virtue, Liberty and Independence Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tour Stop 3 - Georgia Confederate Soldiers Monument STATE OF GEORGIA 1776
GEORGIA CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS We sleep here in obedience to law; When duty called, we came, When country called, we died.
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