Alternate Designations: Washington Guards.
Commander: Lt. Col. Cornelius D. Westbrook.
Numbers: 427; 32 killed, 154 wounded, 17 missing.
Raised: Ulster and Greene.
Dedicated: June 25, 1889.
Location: Located on the east side of Sickles Avenue between its junctions with Emmitsburg Road and United States Avenue. The location of the monument designates the part of the line occupied by the regiment on the afternoon of July 2, 1863. Marks line occupied by regiment on July 2, 1863, after Confederate troops had pierced the 1st line established along the Emmitsburg Road.
Description: A column of rough granite blocks is topped with the Third Corps diamond symbol and adorned on the front with a bronze relief plaque depicting the state seal. Monument is a cylindrical castellated granite turret with an apex cap that contains a diamond-shaped granite finial and set on an eight foot diameter base. The shaft is rusticated stone with a bronze inscription tablet and state seal on the west side. Overall height is twenty-five feet. Flanking markers are one foot square with flat tops.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN192.
Sculptor: Frederick & Field, fabricator.
Tipton view of the Round Tops and 120th New York Monument
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