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119th Regiment
Monument at Gettysburg
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Regiment During the Civil War
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 - 119TH N.Y. INFTY. 2ND BRIG. 3RD DIV. 11TH CORPS JULY
1, 1863.
Reverse - THE STATE OF NEW YORK DEDICATES THIS MONUMENT TO
THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE 119TH REGIMENT N. Y. INFTY. WHO, AS PATRIOTIC
CITIZENS OBEYED THE SUMMONS OF THEIR COUNTRY, OFFERING THEIR LIVES FOR THE CAUSE
OF UNION AND LIBERTY. CASUALTIES, KILLED 11, WOUNDED 70, CAPTURED OR MISSING
59: TOTAL, 140. TAKEN INTO ACTION, 16 OFFICERS 284 MEN.
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Regiment During the Civil War
New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military History
Last modified:
March 19, 2006
URL: http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/119thInf/119thInfMonument.htm
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