Alternate Designations: Corn Exchange Regiment.
Commander: Lt. Col. James Gwyn (1828-1906)
Numbers: 332; 3 killed, 19 wounded, 3 missing.
Raised: Philadelphia.
Dedicated: September 12, 1889.
Location: West side of Sickles Avenue at curve of the Loop. It indicates the position held by the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry to the right of the brigade line on the afternoon of July 2, 1863 as it sustained attacks by Kershaw’s brigade.
Description: Full-length uniformed infantryman stands atop a tapered pedestal and rough-hewn base. The figure holds his rifle vertically, with both hands around the barrel and the butt at his proper left foot. There is a bronze State Seal relief on the front of the pedestal, above the Maltese cross corps insignia. Corn stalks are also included, denoting the regiment’s history as the “Philadelphia Corn Exchange Regiment.” Flank markers, 1′x1′x1’5″.
Fox notes that the 118th was “Known in the Corps as ‘the regiment that fought at Sheperdstown.’ In that battle during the Antietam Campaign, the regiment lost 78 members killed and mortally wounded.”
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN160.
Sculptor: Ryegate Granite Company, fabricator.
Other Monuments: Main Monument | Big Round Top Monument | Position Marker
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