. History of the One hundred and twenty-fourth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers in the war of the rebellion--1862-1863; . nges (in the uniform and accoutrements) that the committeesuggested. The same two members of the committee visited the studioon several subsequent occasions, and when the model was trans-ferred to plaster of paris. they accepted the design and had itphotographed, and the picture on another page is an exactreproduction. The Philadelphia Piihlic Ledger, learning of the model, sentits representative to New York, and, in its Sunday edition,published an illustration of it, with
. History of the One hundred and twenty-fourth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers in the war of the rebellion--1862-1863; . nges (in the uniform and accoutrements) that the committeesuggested. The same two members of the committee visited the studioon several subsequent occasions, and when the model was trans-ferred to plaster of paris. they accepted the design and had itphotographed, and the picture on another page is an exactreproduction. The Philadelphia Piihlic Ledger, learning of the model, sentits representative to New York, and, in its Sunday edition,published an illustration of it, with the following comments: The soldier lad with grounded musket has been modeled for the 124thPennsylvania Volunteers, and will be unveiled this summer on the field ofAntietam to commemorate an engagement on the spot during the famous-battle of the Civil War. It is called At Ease Rest. The sculptor, inaccordance with the wishes of the veterans of the regiment, has followedfaithfully the uniform and accoutrements of the winter campaign whenthey were in service, and. in the handsome face, he has presented a fine type 347. Iliofo by Louis O. Green. Sciil/itor, Pierre Feitu. Statue of Monument ok thk 124TH. Dcscnptio)i of Moiiuiiicnt. riKTL- i> imicli iiKirc life to this soldier than onexiys in blue surmounting the war monuments of a of Young America,finds in the ordinarythousand towns and villages,—boys in blue turned out by the hundredsin all sorts of materials—marble, granite, limestone, bronze, spelter andlead. May new monument committees come into being and replace thesemachine-made soldiers with figures in which the imagination and person-ality of a real sculjilor can display themselves. DESCRIPTION OF ^lONUMENT OF THE ONE HIXDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTHl^EXXSYUANIA \OLUNTEERS. The pedestal is of Westerlygranite, eleven feet seven inchesliigh. in six cottrses, each cotirseconsisting- of a single stone, thebase being nine by nine feet, six-teen inches thick and weighingbetwen n
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