Union Monuments, Massachusetts

1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters
"Andrew Sharpshooters"

The First Massachusetts Sharp Shooters monument is south of Gettysburg on Hancock Avenue (top right).
(see map) A marker is nearby in Ziegler's Grove (bottom right).

The company was commanded at Gettysburg by Captain William Plumer, who had been wounded in June and rode in an ambulance to Gettysburg. It brought 50 men to the field, losing two killed and six wounded. It was part of 2nd Corps, 2nd Division.

Originally formed for Colonel Hiram Berdan's sharpshooter regiments, the two companies of Massachusetts sharpshooters remained independent when told that they would lose the state enlistment bounty by joining Berdan's Federal regiments. The two companies of Massachusetts Sharpshooters were nominally independent, although each operated with a Massachusetts regiment. The 1st Company operated with the 15th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment .

Form the monument:

1st Andrew Sharp shooters
Unattached Mass. Vol.
In action
July 3, 4 & 5, 1863
in different positions.

In God we put our trust
but kept our powder dry.

From the marker:

First
Massachusetts
Sharp Shooters
unattached
July 2nd, 1863