Alternate Designations: Gosline’s Pennsylvania Zouaves; 45th Volunteers; 54th Volunteers.
Commander: Lt. Col. Edward Carroll (ca. 1825-May 5, 1864)
Numbers: 356; 1 killed, 1 wounded.
Raised: Philadelphia.
Dedicated July 2, 1888; Bronze inscription added 1901.
Location: North side of Wheatfield Road. It marks the position held by the 95th Pennsylvania Infantry from the evening of July 2, 1863 until the VI Corps left to pursue Lee’s Army on the morning of July 5th.
Description: Granite monument with apex cap with an arched finial and granite sphere. The apex cap is formed from the shape of 6th Corps Greek Cross with floral decorations below on all sides. A State Seal (two horses rearing with ship emblem in between, and an eagle with olive branch above the ship) appears in bronze plaque on front. Below is banner with motto. The monument is set on a two-tiered rough hewn base. It was dedicated July 2, 1888 and the bronze inscription tablet was added in 1901. Monument is a 3.2 foot square granite shaft topped with an apex cap with arches and set on a rough hewn 5.6 foot square base. Overall height is 12.3 foot. The shaft has rough hewn edges with recessed inscription panels and bronze tablets. The flanking marker is flat topped, one foot square.
Of this regiment Fox writes, “The Ninety-fifth lost six field officers, killed in action; two colonels, two lieutenant-colonels, a major and an adjutant,–a loss in mounted officers, with but one parallel in all the regiments in the war.”
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