61st New York Infantry Regiment
"Clinton Guards"

The monument to the Sixty First New York Infantry Regiment is south of Gettysburg in The Wheatfield.
see map

From the front of the monument:

61st Regt. N.Y. Infy.
1st Brig. 1st Div.
2nd Corps

Organized September 1861.
Mustered out July 14th 1865.

From the rear of the monument:

This position held by the
61st Regt. N.Y. infy.
on the afternoon of
July 2, 1863.

Casualties, killed 6 wounded 56
total loss 62.

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Knut Oscar Broady. It brought 148 men to the field.

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