49th New York Infantry

The 49th New York Infantry, in the 3rd Brigade, 2d Division, 6th Corps, held this position on May 12, 1864. The dead of the regiment were honored with verses mourning the fallen and invoking the bivouac of the dead. In memory of the brave men killed on this field, their surviving comrades erected and dedicated this memorial on Oct. 9, 1902. Those named are Captains Ruben B. Heacock and Seward H. Terry; Lieutenants Herman Haase, Mortimer L. V. Tyler, and John P. McVean; Sergeants Philip S. Moriarity, John H. Richards, Elijah H. Shippee, and Henry R. Rogers; Corporals Franklin B. Parker, Matthias Berndt, Robert Merrill, William H. Nichols, Arthur Cooper, Julius Goldschmidt, Patrick Murphy, Gilbert D. Harris, Thomas Orr, John S. Grisley, Lafayette Hunting, and Samuel W. Pearce; and Privates Harmor Dawson, William Doolittle, John O'Neill, Charles L. Truax, George Voltze, Henry Dayton, William H. Williams, Mortimer Herrick, George Partridge, Frederick Schultz, Dayton R. Leeland, James McGorey, Thomas Apthorp, Timothy O'Regan, Frederick Schultz, Thomas Brooks, Oscar S. Kimball, and Daniel Wilcox.

Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia · United States