Catching up a bit with the NY 126th Infantry from Seneca County, New York newspapers in 1863.
The 126th Regiment is still at Centreville, Va., doing picket duty. The boys were not in the fight at Fredericksburg.
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in May 1863:
Promoted.
We are pleased to learn that Quartermaster Sergeant JOHN STEVENSON, of the 126th Regiment, has been promoted to the Second Lieutenancy in Co. I, vice Chas. C. Babbitt resined [sic]. Everybody in this county knows JOHN, and, as a matter of course, all will be gratefied [sic] to hear of his good fortune. He will never show the white feather, we venture to assert.
not totally in synch with story
