Alternate Designations: None.
Commander: Lt. Col. Richard Long, Jr. (1837-1889).
Numbers: 450; 21 killed, 120 wounded, 4 missing.
Raised: Ross, Pike, Highland, Pickaway, and Athens.
Dedicated: Sept. 14, 1887.
Location: Soldiers’ National Cemetery Annex. Situated where the troops of the 73rd Ohio served as skirmishers and wheeled to the left to pour a flanking fire into the Confederate advance on the afternoon of July 3, 1863.
Description: Four-sided marker of Barre granite with a pyramidal top on a tiered, rough-hewn base. An American flag is draped on top of the monument. It was erected by the State of Ohio. The monument is a two-part shaft topped by a pyramid cap with a sculptured draped flag set on a six foot square rough cut base. The lower part of the shaft has excised polished letters and the upper part has excised polished letters on the front and polished sides contain incised inscriptions. It has an overall height of 10.6 feet. The flanking markers are one-foot square. The monument was originally located on the Taneytown Road, east side, outside of the National Cemetery, since the Battlefield Memorial Association did not own the land on which the position was actually held by the 73rd Ohio during the battle. Because of pedestrian and traffic considerations, the monument was moved 90 feet inside the National Cemetery Annex, near the center of the line held by the 73rd Ohio on July 1-3, 1863.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN287.
Sculptor: New England Granite Works, fabricator.
Army of the Potomac > Eleventh Corps > Second Division > Second Brigade