Dedicated: 1888.
Location: Ziegler’s Grove, North Hancock Avenue. The location of the memorial indicates the position held by the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on July 3, 1863.
Description: A bronze eagle with its wings spread rests atop a carved granite drum which rests atop a granite shaft. On the front of the granite shaft is a bronze plaque depicting a soldier’s canteen surrounded by oak leaves. Monument is a smooth granite shaft with a cap that contains a bronze drum and eagle set on a 4.6 foot square base. The shaft has incised and excised inscriptions, a bronze tablet on the left side and a bronze bas-relief on the right side. Overall height is 10.8 feet. Flanking markers are ten inches square.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN206.
Sculptor: Cessler, J. M., carver.
Other Monuments: Main Monument | Second Monument | Boulder Monument
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