Alternate Designations: None.
Commander: Col. Hiram Berdan (1824-1893), brigade command; Lt. Col. Casper Trepp (k. Nov. 30, 1863).
Numbers: 371; 6 killed, 37 wounded, 6 missing.
Raised: At large. (A, B, D, and H – New York); (C, I, and K – Michigan); F (Vermont); G (Wisconsin)
Dedicated Oct. 9, 1898.
Location: Located on the north end of Pitzer Woods north of Berdan Avenue. West of West Confederate Avenue. The monument marks the advanced site occupied by Co. F on the morning of July 2, 1863, when they advanced from the III Corps lines to the woods on the Fairfield (Millestown) Road, where they met Confederate skirmishes.
Description: Monument is a 4.5 foot-in-circumference Rutland, Vermont marble shaft that is seventeen foot high topped with a sculptured eagle. The stone base is 5.9 foot square with inscriptions. A tall fluted Corinthian column topped by an eagle with wings spread. The monument was badly damaged in a storm in 1994, and the eagle was reconstructed by Park Service staff.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN74.
Sculptor: Moynehan, F., sculptor.
1st USS Companies: A, B, D, & H | C, I, and K | E | F | G | G (Position Stone)
Army of the Potomac > Third Corps > First Division > Second Brigade