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Engineer Brigade USA Flag

The monument to the Army of the Potomac's Engineer Brigade is south of Gettysburg on Pleasonton Avenue.
(see map)

Pleasonton Avenue

From the monument:

Army of the Potomac
Engineer Brigade
Brig. Gen. Henry W. Benham

15th New York (3 Companies)
Major Walter L Cassin

50th New York
Col. William H. Pettes

United States Battalion
CaPart George H. Mendell

Engaged in arduous duties from June 13 to July 18 1863 bridging rivers and transporting pontoons to enable the Army to cross the Potomac River and its tributaries into Pennsylvania and to recross into Virginia.

Engineer Brigade, Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg