. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . ergeant waskilled, and all the color guards shot but one. who brought off the regimentalflag, riddled with bullets. Of the one hundred and eighty-one men who wentinto action, twelve were killed, sixty-three wounded and twenty missing. SERGEANT JACOB G. OKTH. 28th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was born in Philadelphia, November 25,1837. He enlisted in his nativecity. June 6, 1S61, as private in Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry,serving one
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . ergeant waskilled, and all the color guards shot but one. who brought off the regimentalflag, riddled with bullets. Of the one hundred and eighty-one men who wentinto action, twelve were killed, sixty-three wounded and twenty missing. SERGEANT JACOB G. OKTH. 28th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was born in Philadelphia, November 25,1837. He enlisted in his nativecity. June 6, 1S61, as private in Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry,serving one term, during which he was promoted to color-sergeant. It was at Antietam. September 17. 1862, that he won his medal of honorby the capture of a flag of the 7th South Carolina Infantry. The 28th chargedthe enemys position at the Dunker Church, and checked the Confederatesadvance. It lost in this battle forty-four killed, two hundred and seventeenwounded and five missing, a total of two hundred and sixty-six. Writing from Philadelphia, Mr. Orth says: I never fancy telling much about what I did; I always tried to do myduty, and that was all I cared KjO the story of CHAPTER XVIII. Further Incidents of the Battle of Antietam — Charles B. Tanner, 1st Delaware Infantry — The Sunken Road — Rescuing the Fallen Colors — John Johnson, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry—The Story of a Cannoneer. CHARLES B. TANNER. 1st Delaware Infantry, on the 16th of April,lH61,a nineteen-year-old boy, enlisted in the city of Wilmington, is not an easy matter to get from Lieutenant Tanner anythinglike a detailed account of the soldiership he displayed from thetime of his enlistment until he was mustered out in the following account was finally obtained: On the morning of September 17, 1S62, the 1st Delaware Infantry,forming the right of Brigadier-General Max Webers brigade, after fordingAntietam creek, inarched in column for a mile, then facing to the left,advanced in line of
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