Dedicated on September 17, 1906, the monument to the Fourth Pennsylvania Reserves is on Mansfield Avenue. see map
From the front of the monument:
4th Regiment
Pennsylvania
Reserve
Volunteer
Corps
From the tablet on the rear of the monument:
4th Regiment Pennsylvania
Reserve Volunteer Corps
33rd Regt. in line 2nd Brigade
3rd Division. 1st Army Corps.
Organized June 10, 1861
Mustered out June 17, 1864
The Regt. arrived on the field on the afternoon of September 16, 1862.
Formed at this point on the morning of the 17th, advanced about 600 yards South and became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division.
Casualties at Antietam
Killed 5
Wounded 43
Total 48
Recruited Five Companies in Philadelphia, one company each in Montgomery, Chester, Monroe, Lycoming and Susquehanna Counties.
Battles participated in:
Dranesville, Va., December 20, 1861
Mecahnicsville, Va., June 26, 1862
Gaines Mills, Va., June 27, 1862
Charles City Cross Roads, Va., June 30, 1862
Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862
Gainesville, Va., August 28, 1862
Second Bull Run, Va., August 29 and 30, 1862
Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862
South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862
Antietam, Maryland, September 16 and 17, 1862
Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862
Princeton, W. Va., May 6, 1864
Bushey Mountain, W. Va., May 8, 1864
Cloyds Mountain, W. Va., May 9, 1864
New River Bridge, W. Va., May 10, 1864
Blacksburg, W. Va., May 11, 1864
Virtue, Liberty and Independence
Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The west side of the monument shows a bronze Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
On the east side of the monument is a carved Maltese cross within a circle, a composite of the symbols for the two army corps in which the regiment served, the 1st (circle) and the 5th (Maltese cross).
The regiment's Colonel Magilton commanded the brigade at Antietam, leaving Major John Nyce in command of the regiment.
A War Department tablet near the monument tells the story of the 4th's parent brigade at Antietam.
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