Alternate Designations: Rochester Regiment.
Commander: Col. Francis E. Pierce (1833-1896).
Numbers: 305; 16 killed, 86 wounded.
Raised: Monroe County. The 108th New York Infantry was organized at Camp Fitz John Porter in Rochester, New York, and mustered in for three years service on August 18, 1862. The 108th New York Infantry mustered out of service on May 28, 1865.
Dedicated: Sept. 4, 1888.
Location: Located on the east side of Hancock Avenue in Ziegler’s Grove. The monument indicates the position held by the regiment on July 2nd and 3rd, 1863, supporting Woodruff’s Battery.
Description: A trefoil-shaped granite monument carved on the front with a relief depicting a battlefield scene of a soldier lying in the foreground with a rifle in his hand and an artilleryman standing in the background aiming a cannon. Above the battlefield scene is a round bronze relief plaque depicting the state seal. Monument is a two-part rough cut Westerly granite stepped shaft with a cap that contains an oversized trefoil Second Corps symbol that has a medallion on the center top petal and set on a 9.6×6 foot base. Flanking markers are one foot square.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN209.
Sculptor: Barr, R.D., sculptor; Smith Granite Company, fabricator.
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