74th 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
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.
NEW YORK INFANTRY (5TH 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 3D, SUPPORTED THE LEFT CENTRE OF THE ARMY.
CASUALTIES 17 KILLED, 69 WOUNDED, 3 MISSING. TOTAL 89. MUSTERED IN JUNE 20, 1861, MUSTERED OUT JUNE 26, 1864.

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