Identifier: historyofonehund00penn (find matches)
Title: 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;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Infantry. 124th Regiment, 1862-1863 Green, Robert McCay, 1842- , comp
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Pennsylvania Infantry 124th
Publisher: Philadelphia, Ware bros. company, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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\Iasons, organized in 1752. In it George Washington v/ascrafted, and raised in 1753; afterward he became master of alodge.at Alexandria. The visitors were shown a lock of his hair,enclosed in a case, two old chairs formerly owned by his mother,an old Bible, dated 1616, on which he took the oath. On the following morning (the 17th), after breakfast, carswere taken at the depot of the Potomac, Predericksburg &Piedmont Railroad; upon arriving at Furnace Station, carriageswere in waiting to convey the party to the historic ChancellorHouse, where the 124th had such a bloody conflict with theConfederates on May 2, 1863. Arriving at the Chancellor house, they were wannl\ welcomedby Mr. and Mrs. \es. Chancellor and their aged colored servant.A short time was spent in viewing the old house and numerousrelics, after which Conu-ade C. D. M. P.roomhall, Media, Pa.,the historian of the regiment, with the aid of a well-preparedmap, gave an interesting account of the IJattle of Chancellorsville.
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^s . , 01 o ChancellorsviUc Reunion, 1896. After a brief address by Colonel Benjamin Brooke, the partywas driven to the spot where Confederate Cseneral Thomas(Stonewall) Jackson was shot and mortally wounded on thenight of the battle. Major Lacy, formerly of General JacksonsStaff, made an address. Returning- to the old historic house, a bountiful lunch wasserved in the dining room, after which the members of theAssociation adjourned to the shade of the apple trees on the lawn,and the business meeting was called to order by President ColonelJoseph \\\ Hawley. After an appropriate prayer by ChaplainJoseph S. Evans, Colonel Hawley addressed the members asfollows: Comrades: There was a very striking difference between our journeyfrom home to this place yesterday and the one we made in 1862. Pullmancars, with all the comforts that modern improvements in railroad travelcould provide, were at our disposal yesterday; but in 1862, when wcreached the train, we were happy to find that the common

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