Union Monuments, Massachusetts

32nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

The monument to the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment is south of Gettysburg on Sickles Avenue (top right and center). see map

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel George Lincoln Prescott.

A bronze tablet (bottom right and below ) is behind the nearby 5th Michigan monument and shows the location of the field hospital.

Form the monument:

Here the 32nd Massachusetts Infy.
2nd Brig. 1st. Div. 5th A.C.
withstood an attack of the enemy
about 5 o'clock p.m. July 2, 1863.

Withdrawn from here, it fought again in the
Wheatfield.
Lost in both actions
killed and wounded
79 out of 227 officers and men

The monument, designed by a member of the regiment, is a beautiful representation in stone of a pup tent. It is hung with a canteen and carries the Maltese Cross symbol of the Union Fifth Army Corps.

From the hospital marker:

Behind this group of rocks
on the afternon of July 2nd, 1863,
Surgeon Z. Boylston Adams
placed the field hospital of the
32nd Massachusetts Infantry,
2nd Brigade, 1st Div., 5th Army Corps.
Established so near the line
of battle, many of our wounded
escaped capture or death by its
timely aid.

Placed by the
Veteran Association of the Regiment.

See more about the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War