80th New York Infantry Regiment's 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 - ULSTER GUARD 20TH N. Y. STATE MILITIA. THIS HAND FOR OUR COUNTRY. 80TH N. Y. INFANTRY, 1ST BRIG., 3D DIV., 1ST CORPS. ORGANIZED 1861, AT KINGSTON, N. Y. AS 20TH N. Y. S. M. APR. 28,1861, ENTERED U. S. SERVICE FOR 3 MONTHS. SEPT. 5, 1861, RE-ENTERED SERVICE FOR 3 YEARS. SEPT. 5, 1864, RE-ENLISTED AS VETERANS FOR THE WAR. JAN. 29, 1866, MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE.
Reverse - HELD SUBSTANTIALLY THIS POSITION FROM ABOUT 12 M., JULY I, 1863, TO 4 P. M. JULY 2, ON CEMETERY HILL, IN SUPPORT OF 3D CORPS. JULY 3, IN FRONT LINE OF BATTLE
RESISTING PICKETT'S ATTACK. NUMBER ENGAGED, 375 KILLED 35, WOUNDED 111, MISSING 24.
Left Side - SOUTH MOUNTAIN, ANTIETAM, FREDERICKSBURG, GETTYSBURG, PETERSBURG.
Right Side - NORMAN'S FORD, WARRENTON SPRINGS, GAINESVILLE, GROVETON, 2D BULL RUN, CHANTILLY.

80th New York Infantry Regiment's Civil War Newspaper Clippings

Col. George W. Pratt's Monument at Gettysburg - 80th New York Infantry Regiment

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