Alternate Designations: None.
Commander: Col. James L. Selfridge (Sept. 22, 1824-May 19, 1887).
Numbers: 262; 2 killed, 10 wounded, 1 missing.
Raised: Allegheny, Northampton, Potter, Mifflin, Berks, Luzerne, and Dauphin.
Dedicated: Sept. 12, 1889.
Location: Located on the east side of Slocum Avenue, above Spangler’s Spring. It indicates the position held by the 46th Pennsylvania Infantry on the morning of July 2, 1863 until the regiment left to support the Union left flank on July 3 until the close of the battle.
Description: Monument consists of a rough-hewn trapezoidal course on a polished pedestal and two-tiered smooth and rough-hewn base. A square relief of the Pennsylvania State Seal is affixed to the front and a polished, four-sided Corps star insignia is on the top. Monument is a multi-part granite shaft of white and red granite topped with a regimental symbol and set on a 6.6 foot square rough cut base of Gettysburg granite that has a smooth cut front with a bronze tablet. The shaft has polished incised inscriptions, bronze medallion, and excised regimental symbol. Overall height is 12.1 feet. Flanking markers are one foot square. This monument has not been moved. The bronze plaque describing the events of July 3 & 4 was added in 1914.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN333.
Sculptor: Ryegate Granite Company, fabricator.
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