68th Pennsylvania Infantry

At Gettysburg, the 68th Pennsylvania Infantry marked the left of the regiment while supporting Clark's Battery on July 2, 1863, with its right resting 150 feet north as indicated by a flank marker. In the afternoon the regiment advanced southward into the Peach Orchard, where its other monument stands, and engaged the enemy. On July 3 and 4 the regiment was in line with the division on left centre. Present at Gettysburg were 383 officers and men; 3 officers and 10 men were killed, 9 officers and 117 men were wounded, and 13 men were captured or missing. The regiment was recruited in the counties of Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Chester, mustered in on September 2, 1862, and mustered out on June 9, 1865. Its total enrollment was 1049. In all, 10 officers and 58 men were killed and died of wounds, for a total of 68; 11 officers and 155 men were wounded, for a total of 166; and 3 officers and 100 men were captured or missing, for a total of 103. Its service included Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights, Auburn, Kelly's Ford, Mine Run, Wilderness, Guinea Station, and Petersburg.

Pennsylvania · United States