. 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; . 1862,in Company D, 124th Penn-sylvania, and served until the muster out of the 1863. On June i/th, 1863. he re-enlisted in the 29thPennsylvania \olunteer Militia. Colonel Joseph \\\ Hawley,commanding, and served until the regiment was then entered the United States Military Construction Corps,and while serving in that departiuent was captured by Mosebysguerillas ; escaping from them, he serve
. 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; . 1862,in Company D, 124th Penn-sylvania, and served until the muster out of the 1863. On June i/th, 1863. he re-enlisted in the 29thPennsylvania \olunteer Militia. Colonel Joseph \\\ Hawley,commanding, and served until the regiment was then entered the United States Military Construction Corps,and while serving in that departiuent was captured by Mosebysguerillas ; escaping from them, he served wdth the corps until theclose of the war and was discharged at the age of twenty-one assuperintendent of one of the divisions. Although but a drummer boy. he was ordered by General Kaneat the battle of Chancellorsville to take the drummers, pack mulesand cooks to the rear ; he disobeved the order and went into thefight, and was afterwards ])resented with a drum majors swordfor l)raverv, with the inscription, Drummer Poy of Chancellors-ville. Comrade Grim is Past Commander and an active worker inCom-tland vSaunders Post. No. 21. Grand Arm\- of the Reiniblic. 326 [ LENAPE PARK REUNION. (Twenty-second Aiuuial.)September 17, 1906. The twenty-second annual reunion of the survivors of the 124th(marking- the forty-fourth anniversary of the Battle of Antietam)was held at Lenape Park, a few miles from \\est Chester. of the regiment and friends, numbering more than 200,were transported from the West Chester Station to and fromthe park by electric cars. The Boys Band, of 35 pieces, of GlenMills School, in charge of Prof. P. P. Brown, was in attendance. The roster of the veterans present follows: Staff—Chaplain, Rev. Joseph S. Evans; Surgeon, Dr. Joseph R. Martin. Company A—Harmon G. Bond, William Epright, David S. Wilkinson,Wilmer Glisson, Samuel B. Smiley, George W. Tyson. Company C—George G. Taylor, David Pierson, John H. Greenfield, JoelGreenfield, W. Harrison W
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