119th 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 - 119TH N.Y. INFTY. 2ND BRIG. 3RD DIV. 11TH CORPS JULY 1, 1863.
Reverse - THE STATE OF NEW YORK DEDICATES THIS MONUMENT TO THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE 119TH REGIMENT N. Y. INFTY. WHO, AS PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OBEYED THE SUMMONS OF THEIR COUNTRY, OFFERING THEIR LIVES FOR THE CAUSE OF UNION AND LIBERTY. CASUALTIES, KILLED 11, WOUNDED 70, CAPTURED OR MISSING 59: TOTAL, 140. TAKEN INTO ACTION, 16 OFFICERS 284 MEN.

119th New York Infantry Regiment's Civil War Historical Sketch

119th New York Infantry Regiment's Civil War Newspaper Clippings

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