Union Monuments, New Hampshire

5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment

The monument to the Fifth New Hampshire Infantry Regiment is south of Gettysburg on Ayers Avenue near its intersection with Sickles Avenue.
Location: 39.795024 N, 77.24188 W; see map

The monument was dedicated in June of 1886 and consists of boulders taken from the Gettysburg battlefield joined together by a horizontal, octagonal granite stone faced with eight metal tablets.

The 5th New Hamprshire was commanded at te Battle of Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. Hapgood as Colonel Edward Cross had been in command of the brigade since May. When Colonel Cross was mortally wounded by a Confederate sharpshooter, Lt. Colonel Hapgood pointed out the man to Sergeant Charles Phelps, who dropped the hapless Rebel. Phelps was then mortally wounded.

The 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment suffered the most battle deaths of any Union regiment in the Civil War, with 295 men killed in action.

From the tablets around the monument:

5NH

Here July 2nd, 1863 from 5 p.m. till 7
the 5th N.H. Vols. stood and fought.
Total engged 182.
Killed or mortally wounded 31.
Total killed and wounded 81.

Killed or mortally wounded
2nd Lieut. Ruel G. Austin,
Sergeant Oscar D. Allen,
" Samuel Dolbear,
" Charles H. Phelps,
" William B. Welch,
Corporal Charles F. Burrell,
" Edwin B. Cilley,

Corporal George H. Hackett,
" Warren M. Parker,
" George W. Sylvester,
" Edward G. F. Stinson,
" Joseph Tricky;
Private Byron Bennett,
" Horace Bolii,
" Joesph Bond Jr.,

Private George H. Bucknam,
" James Burns,
" Joseph Craig,
" Charles A. Damon,
" Lucius Feeney,
" Andrew J. Foss,
" Samuel R. Green
" Charles Kimball,

Private George Kimball,
" Charles A. Lovejoy,
" Nathan B. Osmer,
" Eliph. B. W. Stevens,
" Roland Taylor,
" Nathan B. Thompson
" Otis Thompson

The State of New Hampshire
erected this monument
July 2nd, 1886
to commemorate the valor of her sons.

On this spot fell mortally wounded
Edward C. Cross, Col. 5th N.H. Vols.
Comdg. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps,
July 2nd, 1863

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