Union Monuments - Connecticut

17th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

There are two monuments to the 17th Connecticut Volunteers are at Gettysburg. One is north of town on Howard Avenue at Barlow's Knoll (above and middle right).

Location: 39.84544 N, 77.2262 W; see map

The second monument is southeast of town on Wainwright Avenue at the foot of East Cemetery Hill (bottom right).

Location: 39.822632 N, 77.228115 W; see map

Both monuments were erected in 1884 by the survivors of the regiment and the State of Connecticut.

The flagpole on Barlow's Knoll (middle right) also commemorates the 17th Connecticut.

The 17th Connecticut was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Fowler until he was killed on July 1st. Major Allen Brady then took command. The regiment brought 386 men to Gettysburg, of whom 20 were killed, 81 wounded and 96 missing.

From the front of the monument on Barlow's Knoll:

Erected by the survivors
of the
17th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
2nd Brigade 1st Division, 11th Corps
In memory of their gallant comrades
who fell here on the 1st day
and on this battlefield on the 2nd and 3rd days of July,
1863

From the rear:

Lieut. Col. Douglas Fowler,
Sergt. Samuel Comstock
Priv. Elephalet Mead
William S. Gregory
Corpl. Henry Burns
Priv. Michael Fox
William W. Westlake
Calvin Nobles

Capt. James E. Moore
Sergt. William O'Douchy,
August E. Bronson,
Bethel S. Barnum,
Priv. Frank J. Benson,
Theodore Blackman,
Smith Delevan,
Daniel H. Purdy

From the right side:

Priv. Richard B. Taylor,
Rufus Warren
Joseph S. Whitlock,
Corpl. Alvah E. Wilcox,
Priv. William F. Bradley,
John R. Booth,
Stephen C. Crofut,
Wilbur B. Morgan,
John W. Metcalf

From the left side:

Sergt. Edwin D.Pickett
Priv. John A. Black
Lawrence Carney,
Crassius M. Crabbe,
Corpl. James Gordon,
Priv. Francis C. Foote
James FLynn,
George H. Gurnsey,
Francis Nash,
John Welsh

The Howard Avenue monument is signed, "W.H. Curtis, Stratford, Conn."

The flagpole commemorative tag reads:

Erected
by the
17th Conn.
Vol. Ass'n.

From the front of the Wainwright Avenue monument:

17th Conn. Vol's

From the right (north (side):

This memorial is erected
by the
State of Connecticut
to
honor her brave sons.

From the rear:

After a fierce contest with
Early's Division at Barlow's Knoll
on July 1st, marked by monument
there, this regment formed in
the line of battle on East
Cemetery Hill and on the
evening of July 2nd, took
position here and was engaged
in repulsing the desperate night
assault of Hayes and Hokes
Brigades.

See more on the 17th Connecticut Infantry Regiment during the Civil War