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73rd Regiment
Monument at Gettysburg
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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.
INSCRIPTIONS
SICKLES' 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.
73D NEW YORK INFANTRY (4TH EXCELSIOR, "2D FIRE ZOUAVES") AT 5.30 P.
M. JULY 2, 1863, THIS REGIMENT WAS DETACHED TO SUPPORT GENERAL GRAHAM'S BRIGADE
AT THE PEACH ORCHARD WHICH WAS HEAVILY ATTACKED BY MCLAWS' DIVISION OF THE CONFEDERATE
ARMY. ON JULY 3, SUPPORTED THE LEFT CENTRE OF THE ARMY. CASUALTIES. 51 KILLED,
103 WOUNDED, 8 MISSING. TOTAL 162. MUSTERED IN JULY 10, 1861. MUSTERED OUT JUNE
29, 1865.
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New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military History
Last modified:
March 27, 2006
URL: http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/73rdInf/73rdInfMonument.htm
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