43rd 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 - 43D NEW YORK INFANTRY, 3D BRIG. 2D DIV. 6TH CORPS. ARRIVED ON FIELD 4 P. M., JULY 2, 1863. HELD THIS POSITION FROM THE MORNING OF JULY 3, UNTIL CLOSE OF BATTLE.
Reverse - THE STATE OF NEW YORK ERECTED THIS MONUMENT IN HONOR OF THE FORTY-THIRD REG'T NEW YORK INFANTRY. ORGANIZED AT ALBANY, N. Y. MUSTERED INTO THE U. S. SERVICE SEPT. 22, 1861. SERVED WITH THE 6TH CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, THROUGHOUT THE WAR. MUSTERED OUT JUNE 27, 1865. BORE A PART IN THE ENGAGEMENTS OF YORKTOWN, WLLLIAMSBURG, THE SEVEN DAYS' BATTLE, CRAMPTON'S PASS, ANTIETAM, FREDERICKSBURG, MARYE'S HEIGHTS, SALEM HEIGHTS, GETTYSBURG, RAPPAHANNOCK STATION, MINE RUN, WILDERNESS, SPOTSYLVANIA, NORTH ANNA, TOTOPOTOMOY, COLD HARBOR, PETERSBURG, 1864, FORT STEVENS, WINCHESTER, FISHER'S HILL, CEDAR CREEK, PETERSBURG, 1865, SAILOR'S CREEK, APPOMAT-TOX COURT HOUSE.

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