The Bucktails

The Bucktails is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Smethport, McKean County, dedicated 1949.

McKean County · dedicated 1949 · US 6 at courthouse, Smethport

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At the call of Col. Thos. L. Kane, 100 Civil War volunteers assembled here on Apr. 24, 1861, to go to Harrisburg. Tails of buck deer, worn as distinctive insignia, provided the name of the famed 42d Regiment, of which they were the core.

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