Dedicated: 1880.
Location: De Trobriand Avenue, the Wheatfield. Locates the spot where Capt. Jedediah Chapman of 27 Connecticut Infantry was killed while commanding a charge of co. “organized from detached members of 8 companies taken prisoners at Chancellorsville.”
Description: Gravestone-sized granite marker with an inscription cut into the south face. Overall height is 18 inches. Originally was located on Wheatfield Road beside the Henry Merwin marker; it was and moved to its current and site-specific location after this portion of the Wheatfield was purchased by the GBMA.
About Captain Chapman
Captain Jedediah Chapman (November 21, 1839-July 2, 1863) fell while leading Company H of the 27th Connecticut Infantry in a charge through the Wheatfield. Chapman is buried in his family’s plot in Grove Street Cemetery, in New Haven, Connecticut.