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Federal Regiment

124th Pennsylvania Infantry

Mustered in on 8/12/1862
Disbanded/Mustered out: Harrisburg, PA 5/16/1863

Commanding Officers:
Col. Joseph W. Hawley
Maj. Isaac L. Haldeman

Statistics for Maryland Campaign
  Initial Strength: not known
  Killed in Action (KIA): 5
  Wounded (WIA): 42
  Missing in Action (MIA): 17

Maps Showing this Unit:
   Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes the Cornfield
   Detail Map #3: Mansfield's XII Corps Attacks Into the Cornfield
   Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods
   Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
   Tablet #27: Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
   Tablet #28: Williams' Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
   Tablet #29: Crawford's Brigade, Williams' Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Twelfth (XII) Army Corps
  Division - 1st Division, XII Corps
  Brigade - 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XII Corps

In the Antietam Campaign:
A nine-month Regiment, Antietam was their first combat, they having been only about a month in service. They crossed South Mountain on 15 September without seeing action. Colonel Hawley was wounded and relieved by Major Haldeman who led the Regiment in their charge into and through the Cornfield as part of the Federal XII Corps on the morning of 17 September.

References, Sources, and other Notes:
Source: Bates, Samuel P., History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: 1868-1871, extracted online at Pennsylvania in the Civil War.

We have 28 individuals in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?	Details*
A	Pvt	Collier, Hosea A.	MWIA 09/17
A	Lt	Finch, Isaac	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	McFarland, George W.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Valentine, Jonathan	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Barlow, Jacob	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Barlow, Joseph	KIA 09/17
C	Corp	Gatchell, Eli	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Stevens, W. H.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Bittle, William L.	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Broomhall, Charles D. Manley
D	Corp	Crozier, James	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Eckfeldt, Elias	MIA 09/17
E	Pvt	McFadden, Joseph	MIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Gratz, William	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Monaghan, Hamilton	MWIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Potts, William W.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Connor, George M.	MIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Jardine, Amos C.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Powers, John	MIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Knowles, William G.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Perisle, William H.	Died 09/30
H	Pvt	Platt, Horatio Nelson	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Zebley, Samuel R.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Armole, John	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Underwood, Joseph W.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Paiste, William H.	MWIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Haldeman, Isaac Lawrence
F&S	Col	Hawley, Joseph W	WIA 09/17

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