. 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; . an any other class ofcitizens. The achievements of the Lnion Army were something he boast of this nation goes up and up, but never comes down, and wearc continually adding to the greatness of our country. Corporal Tom Kay then amused with a song, and gave someHute imitations on a cane. Comrade Robert M. Green was called upon, and said: I did not expect to say anything to-day except to make an appeal inl)ehal


. 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; . an any other class ofcitizens. The achievements of the Lnion Army were something he boast of this nation goes up and up, but never comes down, and wearc continually adding to the greatness of our country. Corporal Tom Kay then amused with a song, and gave someHute imitations on a cane. Comrade Robert M. Green was called upon, and said: I did not expect to say anything to-day except to make an appeal inl)ehalf of our Monument Fund. I do not feel qualified to make a speechsuch a; we ha\e listened to from Judge Johnson and Tom Cooper. He then recited in stirring manner the famous speech deUveredby President Lincoln at Gettysburg, and described vivid picturesof the soldiers life in camp and on the niarch, and in conclusionsaid how grateful we should be that we have lived to see our flagfloat from the highest peak of the Mountain Range of Nations,and respected by all mankind. At 4 P. M. the benediction was pronounced by Chaplain Evans,and the pleasant reunion was at an end. 306. J^pT^^^^^^ JOHX W. .MARSHALL. Was born Xovember i6, 1842. Son of Clone! and Mary(Woodward) Marshall, who resided in \\est llradford town-ship, Chester connty, Pennsylvania, on the west branch of theBrandywine; the farm comprised several hundred acres, pur-chased from the Indians in 1703, by Abraham ^larshall, whocame from Derbyshire. England, and settled on said tract. Theboyhood of John W. was spent in attending- the public school atMarshallton and in such work as was incident in a countrylads life. On August 5. 1862, he enlisted in Company F. ofthe 124th. and served with it until January. i8f\^. when he wasdischarged from a hospital in \\ashington, D. C, for disabilitycaused by typhoid fever. On August 7, 1862 (two da}s after hisenlistment), he married Mary Ellen, only daughter of RobertEmmit and Eliza Smith.


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