. 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; . hanges (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 Public Ledger, learning of the model, sentits representative to New York, and, in i
. 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; . hanges (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 Public 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 famousbattle 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. Ihoto 1)1/ Louis G. Green f<i-iiI/,tor. Pierre Feitn Statue of Monument of thk 124TH Description of Monitiiicnt. of Young America. There is much more Hfe to this soldier than onefinds in the ordinary boys in blue surmounting the war monuments of athousand towns and villages,—boys in blue turned out by the hundredsin all sorts of materials—marble, granite, limestone, bronze, spelter andle:id. May new monument committees come into being and replace thesemachine-made soldiers witli figures in which the imagination and person-ality of a real scuIi)ior can disi)lav themselves. DKSCKl ITIOX OF OF THIS ONE MLXL)RED AXD TWEXTY-FOURTHPEXXSYL\AXIA \OLUXTEERS.
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