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New York honored the officers and soldiers of the state who fell in the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 2, and 3, 1863, many of whom are buried there. Official casualties in the New York commands were 82 officers and 912 enlisted men killed, 306 officers and 3763 enlisted men wounded, and 69 officers and 1685 enlisted men captured or missing. Bronze reliefs portrayed groups of officers associated with New York and with the battle, including D. E. Sickles, J. B. Carr, J. H. H. Ward, S. K. Zook, R. B. Ayers, S. H. Weed, H. E. Tremain, H. W. Slocum, A. Pleasonton, J. S. Wadsworth, G. S. Greene, H. J. Hunt, J. J. Bartlett, D. A. Russel, A. Shaler, H. A. Barnum, J. F. Reynolds, A. Doubleday, A. Von Steinwehr, F. C. Barlow, F. C. Devin, W. S. Hancock, D. Butterfield, G. K. Warren, J. Kilpatrick, and A. S. Webb. It also recorded officers from the State of New York in United States service who were killed or mortally wounded at Gettysburg during those three days, from general officers such as Samuel K. Zook and Stephen H. Weed to a long roll of colonels, majors, captains, and lieutenants from New York regiments, United States artillery and infantry units, and the 1st U.S. Sharpshooters.
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