Installed before July 1, 1919.
Location: Located on the east side of the Emmitsburg Road near the junction with Sickles Avenue.
Description: A portrait of General Humphreys striding forward from the Division Line that extended along the Emmitsburg Road on July 2, 1863. His proper left hand rests on a sword that hangs on his proper left side. The sculpture rests on top of a rough granite base adorned with an inscription plaque on the front and the Pennsylvania state seal on the back. The monument is one of several that the Pennsylvania State Assembly appropriated money for on July 24, 1913. Humphreys was a native of Philadelphia.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN201.
Sculptor: Schweizer, J. Otto, 1863-1955, sculptor.
About Major General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
Born in Philadelphia on November 2, 1810, Humphreys was a member of a prominent naval family; his grandfather was known as the Father of the U.S. Navy. Humphreys graduated from West Point in 1831. He worked as an engineer and with the Coast Survey.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Humphreys became McClellan’s chief engineer in the Army of the Potomac. His nickname from his men was “Old Goggle Eyes” for his eyeglasses. He was given a division command prior to Antietam and played a prominent role at Fredericksburg (where he has a monument). His division was engaged at Chancellorsville and held the Emmitsburg Road line at Gettysburg on July 2.
Shortly after the battle of Gettysburg, with his division effectively destroyed, Humphreys became General Meade’s chief of staff, a position he held until November, when he was given command of the II Corps. After the war, Humphreys commanded the District of Pennsylvania and became the Army’s chief of engineers. He retired in 1879 and died on December 27, 1883. He is buried in the Congressional Cemetery.