Dedicated: August 11, 1885.
Location: Sickles Avenue, the Loop. Located across the road from the main regimental monument.
Description: Rectangular monument has an apex cap, beaded plinth and low relief of the trefoil corps insignia. Monument is a 3.7 foot square Gettysburg granite shaft topped with a sculpture of regimental accoutrements set on a 6.4 foot square rough hewn base. Overall height is 15.7 foot. The shaft has inscription panels on all sides, and reliefs of rifles and accoutrements as well as a bronze state seal on the east side. Flanking markers are one foot square with apex tops that contain inscriptions. It indicates the general position taken by the 140th Pennsylvania Infantry on the afternoon of July 2, 1863.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN165.
Sculptor: Flaherty, John, sculptor
Tipton 1887 photo of the monument on the Loop.
Other Monuments: Main Monument | Second Monument
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