This monument marks the position occupied by the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry
in line of battle July 2nd and 3rd 1863 until advanced to the front of
the copse of trees on its immediate right to assist in repelling the charge of
Longstreet's Corps.
This tablet is placed by their comrades in honor of
Colonel Paul Joseph Revere
First Lieutenant Henry Ropes, Second Lieutenant Sumner Paine,
and forty-one enlisted men
who were killed or mortally wounded
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