59th 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 - 59TH NEW YORK INFANTRY, 3D BRIG. 2D DIV. 2D CORPS.
Reverse - FOUR COMPANIES OF THIS REGIMENT HELD THIS POSITION JULY 2 AND 3, 1863, WHERE MAX. A. THOMAN, LIEUT. COLONEL IN COMMAND, FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED. CASUALTIES; KILLED 6, WOUNDED 28.
Left Side - MUSTERED IN JULY 4, 1861. PARTICIPATED IN 23 ENGAGEMENTS. MUSTERED OUT JUNE 30, 1865.
Right Side - COMMANDERS: W. L. TlDBALL, M. A. THOMAN, H. P. RUGG, W. A. OLMSTED.

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