70th New York Infantry Regiment's Monument at Gettysburg
Taken from Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg (New York at Gettysburg) by the New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, 1902.
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SICKLES' EXCELSIOR BRIGADE, 2D BRIGADE, 2D DIVISION, 3D CORPS. COL. W. R. BREWSTER, COMMANDING. POSITION JULY 2, 1863, 2 TO 6 P. M. JULY 3, SUPPORTED LEFT CENTRE. E PLURIBUS UNUM.
70TH NEW YORK INFANTRY, (1ST EXCELSIOR) ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE 2D OF JULY 1863, THE BRIGADE OF WHICH THIS REGIMENT FORMED A PART SUPPORTED CARR'S BRIGADE IN RESISTING THE ASSAULT OF THE ENEMY ALONG THE. LINE OF THE EMMITSBURG ROAD. ON JULY 3, SUPPORTED THE LEFT CENTRE OF THE ARMY. CASUALTIES 32 KILLED. 81 WOUNDED, 4 MISSING. TOTAL 117. MUSTERED IN JUNE 20, 1861. MUSTERED OUT, JULY 1, 1864.