Union Monuments, Massachusetts

2nd Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters
"Andrew Sharpshooters"

The monument to the 2nd Massachusetts Sharpshooters is south of Gettysburg on Sickles Avenue. see map

From the monument:

July 2nd 1863,
2nd Co. Andrew
Sharp shooters
Mass. Vols.

Originally formed for Colonel Hiram Berdan's sharpshooter regiments, the two companies of Massachusetts sharpshooters remained as state troops when told that they would lose the state enlistment bounty by joining Berdan's Federal regiments. The two companies of Sharpshooters were nominally independent, although each operated with a Massachusetts regiment. The 2nd Company operated with the 22nd Massachusetts and was part of 5th Corps - 1st Division - 1st Brigade.