149th 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 - 149TH NEW YORK INFANTRY 3RD BRIGADE —2ND DIVISION 12TH CORPS FLAG WAS PLANTED IN WORKS. SHOT DOWN AND MENDED UNDER FIRE. 
Reverse - 5 P. M. JULY 1, 1863, OCCUPIED POSITION NEAR LITTLE ROUND TOP. 4 A. M. JULY 2, MOVED HERE, BUILT THESE WORKS AND DEFENDED THEM JULY 2 AND 3. KILLED 6, WOUNDED 46, MISSING 3. MUSTERED IN AT SYRACUSE, N. Y., SEPT. 18, 1862. TOTAL ENLISTMENTS 1,270. TOTAL LOSSES 602. MUSTERED OUT JUNE 12, 1865. CHANCELLORSVILLE, GETTYSBURG, WAUHATCHIE, LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, MISSIONARY RIDGE, RlNGGOLD, ROCKY FACE RIDGE, RESACA, NEW HOPE CHURCH, PINE MOUNTAIN. LOST MOUNTAIN KOLB'S FARM, KENESAW MOUNTAIN, PEACH TREE CREEK SIEGE OF ATLANTA MARCH TO THE SEA, SIEGE OF SAVANNAH, CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS, BENTONVILLE.

149th New York Infantry Regiment's Civil War Historical Sketch

Song of the Twentieth Corps - 149th New York Infantry Regiment

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