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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

One Hundred Twenty-fourth Regiment Field & Staff Officers

Staff and Field Officers from Chester County, Pennsylvania

Colonel 
Joseph W Hawley

Lieutenant Colonel 
Wm. B Waddell

Adjt. 
J. Carpenter Worth

Quartermaster 
George Malin, Jr.

Quartermaster 
W.T. Haines

Chaplain 
Joseph S. Evans

Sergeant Major 
John Haines Long

Quartermaster Sergeant 
Jessee Taggart

Roster Source: J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches (Phila.: Louis H. Everts, 1881)

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