Monuments to Individuals

Brigadier General Stephen Weed and
Captain Charles Hazlett

Near the parking area at the summit of Little Round Top.
Location: 39.792121 N , 77.236583 W; see map

This was the original marker erected by veterans of the 91st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. When state funds became available to build a larger monument in 1889 the memoirial was relocated to a nearby boulder already inscribed to Lt. Hazlett and was repurposed to honor both Hazlett and Weed.

General Weed was the 91st's brigade commander, and Hazlett commanded the artillery battery who supported them during their defence of Little Round Top. Both officers had gone through heroic efforts to get their men on the hill (Battery D had hand-carried their artillery pieces up the rocky hillside) and both died in its defence.

The story developed that General Weed was mortally wounded by a sharpshooter and Captain Hazlett was leaning over him receiving his dying words when Hazlett, too, was struck and killed. While there is some doubt to the accuracy of the story, the monument has helped link the deaths of the two men to Gettysburg visitors ever since.

From the monument:

91
P.V.V.
Reg.

Position
July 2 ,3, 4, 1863.

Erected by the 91 Reg P.V.
in memory of Brig. Gen. Weed
3 Brig. 2 Div. 5 A.C. and Lt. Chs. E. Hazlett
5th U.S. Arty. who fell
at this spot July 2, 1863

The monument stands on a boulder with an inscription that is partially visible behind the monument:

Hazlett fell com'r Batt'y D 5 U.S.Art'y in battle July 2nd 1863