The 125th New York was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Levin Crandell, a bookkeeper from Troy, while Colonel George Lamb Willard commanded the brigade until he was killed in the 2nd.
The Medal of Honor was awarded to Corporal Harrison Clark of Company E for when he “seized the colors and advanced with them after the color bearer had been shot.”
The 125th, the 111th and the 126th, had been nicknamed the Harper Ferry Cowards because of their unwilling surrender at Antietam in 1862. The unit spent a miserable winter as prisoners in a Union war camp until they were exchanged, and got a chance to clear their name at Gettysburg.
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Second Army Corps
The Medal of Honor was awarded to Corporal Harrison Clark of Company E for when he “seized the colors and advanced with them after the color bearer had been shot.”
The 125th, the 111th and the 126th, had been nicknamed the Harper Ferry Cowards because of their unwilling surrender at Antietam in 1862. The unit spent a miserable winter as prisoners in a Union war camp until they were exchanged, and got a chance to clear their name at Gettysburg.
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Second Army Corps
The 125th New York was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Levin Crandell, a bookkeeper from Troy, while Colonel George Lamb Willard commanded the brigade until he was killed in the 2nd.
The Medal of Honor was awarded to Corporal Harrison Clark of Company E for when he “seized the colors and advanced with them after the color bearer had been shot.”
The 125th, the 111th and the 126th, had been nicknamed the Harper Ferry Cowards because of their unwilling surrender at Antietam in 1862. The unit spent a miserable winter as prisoners in a Union war camp until they were exchanged, and got a chance to clear their name at Gettysburg.
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Second Army Corps
The Medal of Honor was awarded to Corporal Harrison Clark of Company E for when he “seized the colors and advanced with them after the color bearer had been shot.”
The 125th, the 111th and the 126th, had been nicknamed the Harper Ferry Cowards because of their unwilling surrender at Antietam in 1862. The unit spent a miserable winter as prisoners in a Union war camp until they were exchanged, and got a chance to clear their name at Gettysburg.
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Second Army Corps
Inscription
125th New York Infantry,
3d Brig. 3d Div. 2d Corps
Recruited in Rensselaer Co. N.Y.
Mustered in at Troy, N.Y. Aug. 27th 1862.
Engaged in 23 battles.
Mustered out at Albany, N.Y. June 5th 1865.
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