The monument to the Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves at Antietam is on Mansfield Avenue. (39.488761° N, 77.7454° W; see map) It was dedicated on September 17, 1906.
The 7th Pennsylvania Reserves was commanded at Antietam by Major Chauncey A. Lyman after its colonel, Henry Bolinger, was wounded at Turner's Gap on South Mountain.
From the tablet on the front of the monument:
7th Regiment Pennsylvania
Reserve Volunteer Infantry
36th Regiment in line, 2nd Brigade
3rd Division, 1st Corps
Organized June 26, 1861
Mustered out June 16, 1864
The regiment 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 12
Wounded 60
Total 72
Recruited three companies in Philadelphia, two companies in Cumberland County, two companies in Lebanon County, one company each in Luzerne, Clinton and Perry counties.
Battles participated in:
Great Falls |
Dranesville |
Mechanicsville |
Gaines Mills |
Charles City Cross Roads |
Malvern Hill |
Gainesville |
Second Bull Run |
Chantilly South Mountain |
Antietam |
Fredericksburg |
and Wilderness |
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).
A War Department tablet near the monument tells the story of the 7th's parent brigade at Antietam.
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