Union Monuments - Massachusetts

16th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

The monument to the 16th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment is south of Gettysburg on Emmitsburg Road, near the intersection with Sickles Avenue.

Location: 39.80705 N, 77.24534: see map

The 16th Massachusetts was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Waldo Merriam. He was wounded on July 2, and Captain Matthew Donovan then took command. The regiment brought 307 men to the field, losing 15 killed, 53 wounded and 13 missing.

The monument was erected in 1885 by the State of Massachusetts, and features on all four sides the diamond that is the symbol of the Union 3rd Army Corps

From the monument:

Sixteenth Massachusetts
1st Brigade 2nd Division 3rd Corps
Army of the Potomac
On this field July 2nd 1863
4 officers and 23 enlisted men
were killed
to whose memory this monument
is erected by the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

16th Mass. Vols.

See more about the 16th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War