Alternate Designations: California Regiment.
Commander: Col. Richard P. Smith, Jr. (1837-1887)
Numbers: 331; 21 killed, 58 wounded, 19 missing.
Raised: Philadelphia and New York City.
Dedicated July 3, 1887.
Location: Webb Avenue at the Angle. The sculpture indicates the position held by the 71st Pennsylvania “California” regiment after the cannonading on July 3, 1863 and prior to Armistead’s Brigade’s advance to the Angle wall.
Description: It cost just over $1,750.00. Monument and two flanking markers. Monument is a battered shaft of rough cut laid Westerly granite blocks topped with a cross gable cap and trefoil and set on a 6.1 foot square base. The shaft has polished tablets, bronze medallion, and incised and excised inscriptions. Overall height is 10.1 feet. Flanking markers are one foot square.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN223.
Sculptor: Smith Granite Company, fabricator.
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