126th 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 - 126TH NEW YORK INFANTRY 3D BRIG. 3D DIV. 2D CORPS JULY 3D ~ 1863.
Right Side - THE REGIMENT PARTICIPATED IN THE FOLLOWING ENGAGEMENTS: HARPER'S FERRY, GETTYSBURG, AUBURN FORD, BRISTOE STATION, MINE RUN, M0RTON'S FORD, WILDERNESS, PO RIVER, SPOTSYLVANIA, NORTH ANNA, TOTOPOTOMOY, COLD HARBOR, PETERSBURG, DEEP BOTTOM, STRAWBERRY PLAINS, REAMS' STATION, BOYDTON PLANK ROAD, SUTHERLAND'S STATION, FARMVILLE, APPOMATTOX.
Reverse - THE REGIMENT WAS IN POSITION TWO HUNDRED YARDS AT THE LEFT, JULY 2, UNTIL 7 P. M., WHEN THE BRIGADE WAS CONDUCTED THIRTEEN HUNDRED YARDS FURTHER TO THE LEFT, AND THE REGIMENT WITHTHE 111TH NY AND 125TH N. Y., CHARGED THE ENEMY IN THE SWALE, NEAR THE' SOURCE OF PLUM RUN, DRIVING THEM THERE FROM AND ADVANCING ONE HUNDREDAND SEVENTY-FIVE YARDS BEYOND, TOWARDS THE EMMITSBURG ROAD TO A POSITION INDICATED BY A MONUMENT ON SICKLES AVENUE. AT DARK THE REGIMENT RETURNED TO NEAR ITS FORMER POSITION. IN THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 3, IT TOOK THIS POSITION AND ASSISTED IN REPULSING THE CHARGE OF THE ENEMY, CAPTURING THREE STANDS OF COLORS, AND MANY PRISONERS. NUMBER ENGAGED; KILLED; WOUNDED; MISSING. OFFICERS 30: 5; 9; 0. ENLISTED MEN 425: 35; 172; 10. TOTAL ENGAGED 455 TOTAL LOSSES 231.
Left Side - COLONEL ELIAKIM SHERRILL, ,BORN FEBRUARY 16; 1813. DIED JULY 4, 1863. SERVED AS MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND STATE SENATOR. ENTERED THE U.S. MILITARY SERVICE AS COLONEL OF THE I26TH N. Y. INFANTRY IN 1862. MORTALLY WOUNDED JULY 3, 1863. WHILE IN COMMAND OF HIS BRIGADE.

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