97th 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 - 97TH NEW YORK INFANTRY, 2D BRIGADE 2D DIVISION 1ST CORPS.
Reverse - HELD THE ENEMY IN CHECK HERE FROM 12:30 TO 3 P. M., JULY 1, 1863. DURING THIS TIME CHARGED ACROSS THE FIELD TO THE WEST, ASSISTING IN CAPTURING IVERSON'S BRIGADE, AND SECURING FLAG OF 20TH N. C.
Left Side - JULY 2 AND 3 ENGAGED ON CEMETERY HLLL, AND AT ZIEGLER'S GROVE. CASUALTIES KILLED 12 WOUNDED 36 MISSING 78
Right Side - (CONKLING RIFLES) ORGANIZED AND COMMANDED BY COL. CHAS. WHEELOCK, OF BOONVILLE, N. Y.

97th New York Infantry Regiment's Civil War Newspaper Clippings

The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Hayden - 97th New York Infantry Regiment

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