Private George D Miller of Company D, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry was terribly wounded at Antietam by a gunshot through his body, but lived to tell about it – in Robert Green’s History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion 1862-1863 (1907), one page shown here. It’s online thanks to the Hathi Trust.

This is Major Isaac Law Haldeman of the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry, who may have commanded the regiment at some point at Antietam after Colonel Hawley was wounded. His photograph is from Green’s History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion 1862-1863 (1907), online from the Hathi Trust.

John S. Jardine was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1805 but was a farmer in Pennsylvania and a married father by 1833. He had 9 children altogether with his Pennsylvania-born wife Mary Moore Custer, the last born in 1852 in Lower Merion outside Philadelphia.

Ten years later, in July 1862, his third child and third son – 21 year old Amos C. Jardine – married Mary Ann Pearce, who was about 5 years his senior and very pregnant.

Very soon after the wedding, on July 21st, Amos and his older brother Bethel enlisted in West Chester in Company G of the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry. On August 12th they and their Company mustered for nine months service in Harrisburg. They were hurriedly equipped and packed off to Washington, DC, arriving there on the 15th. On the 17th they were at Camp Stanton just across the river in Arlington, VA.

Also on August 17th, Amos’ new wife Mary Ann Jardine bore him a daughter she named Mary. I very much hope Amos got a letter about that before the regiment left camp on 6 September on their march into Maryland.

They arrived near Sharpsburg on the 16th and the rookies of the 124th were in vicious combat in and near the now-famous Miller Cornfield on the morning of September 17th. It was there, exactly one month after his daughter was born, that Amos Jardine was mortally wounded. He died a few days later.

I’m glad to report that Amos’ widow and child survived him and had full lives – Mary Ann remarried in 1869 and daughter Mary lived to 1941 and had a son of her own.

Four days after his 21st birthday, Private Samuel R Zebley of the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry was killed at Antietam. His internment back home in Wilmington, DE was reported by the Blue Hen’s Chicken and Commonwealth of 1 October 1862, seen above. Issues from May to October 1862 are online from the Library of Congress.

Sergeant William W Potts of the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry was wounded by a gunshot to his right foot in action in Miller’s cornfield at Antietam on 17 September 1862. On 20 September he went off on his own by way of Hagerstown and Chambersburg – where he got his first medical attention – to Harrisburg, where he reported to an Army hospital.

That extraordinary after-Antietam story is in Robert M Green’s History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion 1862-1863 (1907), the first two pages shown here. The whole text is online thanks to the Hathi Trust.

He was a prominent farmer at Swedeland, PA after the war. This is a photograph of his family home at Swedeland from a page in T.M. Potts’ Historical Collections Relating to the Potts Family in Great Britain and America (1901), online thanks to GoogleBooks.