Second Massachusetts Infantry

On the morning of July 3, 1863, from the hill behind this monument, the Second Massachusetts Infantry assaulted Confederate troops in the works at the base of Culp's Hill opposite. The regiment carried into the charge 22 officers and 294 enlisted men. It lost 4 officers and 41 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 6 officers and 84 enlisted men wounded. Those remembered from that action include Lieut. Col. Charles R. Mudge, Captain Thomas R. Robeson, Captain Thomas B. Fox, Lieut. Henry V.D. Stone, color bearers Leavitt C. Durgin, Rupert J Sadler, and Steven Cody, First Sergeant Alonzo J. Babcock, Sergeant William H. Blunt, Corporals Charles Burdett, Jeremiah S. Hall, Ruel Whittier, Theodore S. Butters, Patrick Heoy, and Gordon S. Wilson, and Privates Samuel T. Alton, James T. Edmunds, Charles Kiernan, George M. Bailey, William H. Ela, William Marshall, Henry C. Ball, John E. Farrington, Frederick Maynard, Wallace Bascom, Silas R. Foster, Andrew Nelson, John Briggs, Jr., Willard Foster, Rufus A. Farker, David B. Brown, Joseph Furber, Philo H. Peck, William T. Bullard, Fritz Goetz, Sideny S. Prouty, James A. Chage, Daniel A. Hatch, Richard Seavers, Peter Conlan, John J. Jewett, Charles Trayner, John Derr, John Joy, and David L. Wade.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States