2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
(Photograph above by Alan D. Brunelle, July 2007)
All information from: A History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion by Martin A. Haynes, Lakeport, New Hampshire 1896. Reprinted by Higginson Book Company 1998. Pages 303-312. (Note: text in italics below are quotes from the book.)
- Designed by: Thomas Nawn, of West Concord, New Hampshire.
- Description: It consisted of three pieces — a base five feet square and one foot and eleven inches thick, with champered corners; a plinth of the same shape, four feet square and fifteen inches thick; the plinth surmounted by a pyramid three feet and four inches square at the base and seven feet and one inch in altitude. The corners of the pyramid are champered, and on each is cut in bas relief a full sized musket; while below, on the square formed by the champered corners of the base of the pyramid, is the diamond badge of the Third Corps, with polished surface. The four sides of the plinth are polished, and on three of them are inscriptions, as follows:
- On the north side: 2D NEW HAMPSHIRE VOL. INFT. 3 BRIG., 2DIV., 3 CORPS.
- On the east side: ENGAGED. 24 OFFICERS, 330 ENLISTED MEN. JULY 2, 1863.
- On the west side: CASUALTIES. OFFICERS. KILLED 7, WOUNDED 14. ENLISTED MEN. KILLED 18, WOUNDED 119, MISSING 35.
- Location: the southern edge of the peach orchard, near the Emmitsburg pike, on the advanced line held by the regiment.
- This is where modern-day Birney Avenue intersects the Emmitsburg road (route 15).
- General program
- Dedicated on July 2, 1886 at 3:00pm — inclement weather shortened the ceremony.
- General Patterson presided, and first called upon Chaplain Adams to offer prayer
- After which Martin A. Haynes delivered the dedicatory address. ...
- The address was followed by a poem by Chaplain John W. Adams
- General Patterson then briefly addressed Colonel John C. Linehan, and through him turned over the monument to the custody of the Battfield Monument Association
- Colonel Linehan accepted the monument on behalf of the GBMA
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