07/03/2025
Thank you 124th New York State Volunteers, Co. H for sharing their story and carrying on their legacy. 🇺🇸
“About two o'clock the enemy opened a most furious cannonade with a hundred and twenty guns. The Union batteries soon began to reply, and for over two hours the earth seemed to tremble beneath us, and the air was filled with fire and smoke and iron. The enemy's infantry kept concealed, and our troops with loaded weapons hugged the ground, impatiently awaiting the opening of the less noisy but more deadly contest with small arms which they all knew was sure to follow. At four o'clock it came, grand, desperate, terrible. But the 124th were not called to participate in it, and I will not therefore attempt to describe it. At five o'clock it was over. Picket's division, the flower of the Confederate army, had been annihilated, and Lee and his cohorts defeated - fairly and squarely whipped in open fight - not overpowered by a force superior in numbers, for the slight difference that existed in that particular was in favor of the Confederates.
For once the army of Northern Virginia had met its old adversary even handed and received a crushing defeat. For once the army of the Potomac had gained a great and undisputed victory.”
- Col. Charles H. Weygant, History of the One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Regiment, N.Y.S.V.
