FREDERICK EVANS NORTON -- 124th INFANTRYLESS THAN 9 MONTHS IN THE INFANTRY --Frederick Evans Norton was only 16 years old when he enlisted in the124th Infantry in Plattsburgh, even though his Muster Roll Abstractsays he was 18. He received \$900 for enlisting -- a \$600 bounty fromthe town and another \$300 from the county. The 124th only had 1,305men cycle through its ranks in the two and a half years it was inexistence bet ween September 1862 and June 1865. By the time Frederickjoined his regiment in the field with the Army of the Potomac, they hadsuffered 518 casualties in battle -- about 40 of the total. AtChancellorsville alone, they had 204 casualties and two months later, atGettysburg, received 90 more.There were only three battles left in 1864 in which Frederickparticipated -- Poplar Spring Church, Boydtown Plank Road and theHicksford Raid. After winter quarters and a couple of minor battles theregiment joined the Appomattox Campaign. Between March 28, 1865, andLee's surrender on April 9th, they suffered 32 more casualtiesincluding 9 deaths. While on the campaign, they captured the battle flagof the 59th Alabama along with 165 of their men and 75 stands of armswithout losing a single man.After 8 months and 17 days in the service, Frederick mustered out onJune 3, 1865, in Washington, DC. In 1877, he started receiving hisInvalids Pension and, six years later, married Alvira Weldon in MooersForks in 1883. The couple had three children. When Frederick died in1905, he was buried in the Union Cemetery there with ceremoniesincluding men from the Angell Post of the G. A. R. from Mooers.
