137th New York Infantry Regiment's Monument at Gettysburg

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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.

INSCRIPTIONS
Front - 137TH N. Y. INFY. 3D BRIG. 2D DIV. 12TH CORPS.
Reverse - CASUALTIES: KILLED 40; WOUNDED 87; MISSING 10
Left Side - FOR ITS SERVICES IN THIS AND MANY OTHER GREAT BATTLES OF THE WAR IT HOLDS A PROUD POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF THE "GREAT REBELLION ".
Right Side THE 137TH REGIMENT OF NEW YORK INFANTRY HELD THIS POSITION JULY 2, 1863, AND UNTIL THE RETREAT OF THE REBEL ARMY.