Dedicated on September 17, 1904, the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry monument is on Mansfield Avenue. See map >
From the monument:
12th Pennsylvania Cavalry
113th of the line
4th Brigade Cavalry Division
Recruited in Philadelpia.
Battles participated in
Second Manassas Fisher's Hill Clarksburg
Sugar Loaf Mountain Monocacy Charlestown
South Mountain Frederick Maryland Heights
Antietam Newtown Hamilton
Moorfield Winchester 1-2-3 Bunker Hill
Woodstock Cedar Creek Smithfield
Sleepy Creek Bolivar Heights
Dunningham Cross Roads
Solomon's Gap Crampton's Pass Hamilton
Pleasant Valley Kernstown Halltown
Edenburg Boonsboro
The bottom front of the statue has a bas relief of the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that is on every monument dedicated by the state.
The regiment was commanded at Antietam by Major James A. Congdon. It was on independent duty with the Provost Marshal rounding up stragglers and handling Confederate prisoners behind the First and Twelfth Corps lines.
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