Monuments to Individuals Individuals Menu Page Lewis Armistead Francis Barlow John Buford John Burns Jed Chapman Charles Collis Wiliam Corby Samuel Crawford Alonzo Cushing Abner Doubleday Henry Fuller John Geary John Gibbon George Greene Winfield Hancock Alexander Hays Charles Hazlett Oliver Howard Amos Humiston Andrew Humphreys James Longstreet George Meade Henry Merwin John Nicholson John Reynolds John Robinson John Sedgwick Daniel Sickles Henry Slocum Charles Taylor Strong Vincent James Wadsworth George Ward Gouverneur Warren Alexander Webb William Wells George Willard Albert Woolson Samuel Zook

Brigadier General Stephen Weed
and Captain Charles Hazlett

The monument to Brigadier General Stephen Weed and
Captain Charles Hazlett is south of Gettysburg on the summit of Little Round Top. (39.792121 N , 77.236583 W; map)

Monument map: Little Round Top

This was originally the monument to the 91st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, erected by veterans of the 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 Pennsylvania'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