120th Regiment
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 - 120TH NEW YORK INFANTRY, 2D BRIGADE, 2D DIVISION, 3D CORPS. THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH NEW YORK INFANTRY HELD THIS PART OF THE LINE ON THE SECOND DAY OF JULY, 1863. PRESENT FOR DUTY; 30 OFFICERS, 397 MEN; TOTAL, 427. CASUALTIES : (FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT) KILLED IN BATTLE, 8 OFFICERS, 25 MEN; WOUNDED, 10 OFFICERS, 144 MEN; MISSING, 17; TOTAL 204.
Reverse - BATTLES IN WHICH THE REGIMENT WAS ENGAGED. (FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT.) FREDERICKSBURG; CHANCELLORSVILLE; GETTYSBURG; JAMES CITY; MINE RUN; WILDERNESS; SPOTSYLVANIA; NORTH ANNA; TOTOPOTOMOY; COLD HARBOR; PETERSBURG; STRAWBERRY PLAINS; DEEP BOTTOM; POPLAR SPRING CHURCH; BOYDTON PLANK ROAD (OCT. 27-28, 1864); DABNEY'S MILL (OR HATCHER'S RUN); PETERSBURG (OR TUCKER'S HOUSE, MARCH 25, 1865) BOYDTON PLANK ROAD (MARCH 31, 1865); WHITE OAK ROAD; AMELIA SPRINGS; FARMVILLE; APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE.
ON JULY 3, SUPPORTED THE LEFT CENTRE OF THE ARMY. ORGANIZED AT KINGSTON, N. Y. MUSTERED INTO THE U. S. SERVICE AUGUST 22, 1862. MUSTERED OUT JUNE 3, 1865.

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