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72nd Regiment Back to 72nd 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 INSCRIPTIONSSICKLES' EXCELSIOR BRIGADE 2D BRIGADE, 2D DIVISION, 3D CORPS. COL. W. R. BREWSTER, COMMANDING. POSITION JULY 2, 1863, 2 TO 6 P. M. JULY 3, SUPPORTED LEFT CENTRE. E PLURIBUS UNUM. 72D NEW YORK INFANTRY (3D EXCELSIOR) ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE 2D OF JULY 1863, THE BRIGADE OF WHICH THIS REGIMENT FORMED A PART SUPPORTED CARR'S BRIGADE IN RESISTING THE ASSAULT OF THE ENEMY ALONG THE LINE OF THE EMMITSBURG ROAD. ON JULY 3, SUPPORTED THE LEFT CENTRE OF THE ARMY. CASUALTIES. 7 KILLED, 94 WOUNDED 15 MISSING, TOTAL 116. MUSTERED IN JUNE 20, 1861. MUSTERED OUT JULY 19, 1864. Back to 72nd Regiment During the Civil War New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military History
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