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124th New York Infantry

Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
· 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps
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The 124th New York Infantry, known as the Orange Blossoms, served in the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps and went into action on this spot on July 2nd 1863 with 18 officers and 220 men. It lost 7 officers and 85 men killed and wounded there. Mustered in on Sept. 5, 1862, the regiment had total enlistments of 1320, total losses of 516, and mustered out on June 2, 1865. Those listed as killed were Col. A. Van Horn Ellis, Captain Isaac Nicoll, Sergt John D. Drake, Corpl Jacob Lent, Priv William Lamereaux, Priv Benjamin F. Flagg, Priv James Roke, Priv William H. Cox, Priv James E. Homan, Priv Charles Edwards, Priv James Partigton, Priv William Whan, Priv John Carroll, Priv Cornelius S. Allen, Priv George H. Stephens, Priv Ambrose S. Holbert, Priv Walter Barton, Major James Cromwell, Lieut J. Milner Brown, Corpl Orlando U. Knapp, Corpl Isaac Decker, Priv Harrison Storms, Priv Robert J. Holland, Priv John Glanz, Priv James Pemberton, Priv John W. Leeper, Priv James B. Moore, Priv Hezekiah Harris, Priv John Scott, Priv Amsey W. Quick, Priv Isaac G. Gillson, Priv William D. Dawkins, and Priv William Campbell.
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