1st Battalion United States Sharpshooters
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 - 1ST U. S. SHARPSHOOTERS (BERDAN'S) 2D BRIG. 1ST DIV. 3D CORPS
Reverse - ONE HUNDRED SHARPSHOOTERS RECONNOITRED TO THIS SPOT ABOUT 12 M., JULY 2, 1863, LOSING HERE NINETEEN MEN. THEY FIRST DEVELOPED THE ENEMY'S THREATENED ATTACK UPON OUR LEFT AND REAR. JULY 3, THE REGIMENT SUPPORTED BATTERIES ALONG CEMETERY RIDGE. ON THE 4TH IT PICKETED AND SKIRMISHED NEAR THE PEACH ORCHARD. KILLED 6. WOUNDED 37. CAPTURED 6. TOTAL 49
Right Side - THIS REGIMENT WAS RECRUITED IN 1861 FROM FIVE NORTHERN STATES AND HAD FOUR NEW YORK COMPANIES (A, B, D, AND H.) SERVED IN 3D, 5TH AND 2ND CORPS PARTICIPATING IN FORTY-THREE BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES FROM YORKTOWN (1862) TO APPOMATTOX (1865)
Left Side - THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE MEN OF THIS COMMAND WHO FELL AT GETTYSBURG

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