Harrison Jeffords
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Harrison Jeffords | |
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| Born | August 21, 1836 Monroe County, New York, US |
| Died | July 3, 1863 (aged 26) Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US |
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| Service/ | 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment |
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Harrison H. Jeffords (August 21, 1836 – July 3, 1863) was the
Jeffords was born in
While Colonel Jeffords was back in Michigan on a recruiting trip, the ladies of Monroe, Michigan, presented him with a new national flag to replace the regiment's original flag, which had been badly damaged in recent battles. Jeffords stated that he would defend the flag with his life.
During the
After the war, the regiment erected its monument on the battlefield near the point at which the colonel fell. Despite popular belief, the monument's image of the color-bearer is not a representation of Colonel Harrison Herbert Jeffords. Besides lacking Colonel Jefford's ever-present "goatee" styled beard, the soldier depicted does not have on the Colonel's uniform, but is actually outfitted according to postwar army regulation. However, there is a verse inscribed in dedication to the Fourth Michigan's fallen leader, on the opposite side of the monument.
In popular media
- In the eighth episode of the eighth season of "The Office", in the episode entitled "Gettysburg", character Andy Bernard mentions Jeffords while talking about flags.
- Jeffords also appears in Civil War Combat's first episode, The Wheatfield at Gettysburg, which describes his death.
- Civil War Journal also mentions Jeffords and his flag in the episode, "Banners of Glory"
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