Union monuments - Pennsylvania Infantry

106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
Monument at the Copse of Trees

This is one of two monuments and a marker to the 106th at Gettysburg. You can also see the monument at the Codori House on Emmitsburg Road, or go to the main 106th Pennsylvania Regiment page, which includes the marker on East Cemetery Hill.

The 106th Pennsylvania's monument on Hancock Avenue is on the northeast edge of the Copse of Trees next to the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.

Location: 39.81259 N, 77.23563 W; see map

The monument is topped by the trefoil symbol of the Union 2nd Army Corps, formed of drums and stacked knapsacks. A brass bas-relief shows the countercharge towards the Codori house. Above the bas-relief a decorative row of 40 small trefoils girdles the monument, representing the 40 rounds carried by each soldier.

From around the top of the monument:

106th
Pennsylvania Infantry
Philadelphia Brigade
2d Brigade
2d Division
2d Corps

From the right side:

Position of the Regiment July 2, 1863.
In the evening the Regiment assisted
in repulsing a charge of the enemy
on this line and made a counter
charge to the Emmitsburg road
in which 3 guns of Battery B, 1st Rhode
Island were recovered and at the
Codori House captured 250 prisoners.

The evening of July 2nd the Regiment moved
to East Cemetery Hill to reinforce the
11th Corps and remained there as indicated
by monument. During the 3rd, companies
A and B continued here and assisted in
repulsing the final assault of the
enemy on the afternoon of the 3rd.

From the left side:

Present at Gettysburg 23 officers 312 men
Killed and died of wounds 2 officers 10 men
Wounded 8 officers 43 men
Captured or missing 1 man
Total 64
Mustered in August 28th 1861
Re-enlisted December 29th 1863
Mustered out June 30th 1865
Total enrollment 1020
Killed and died of wounds 9 officers 90 men
Died of disease etc. 1 officer 94 men
Wounded 24 officers 373 men
Captured or missing 5 officers 152 men
Total 39 officers 709 men
Total 748

From the rear:

Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, Savage Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Flint Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Haymarket, Gettysburg, Kelly's Ford, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Reams' Station, Boydton Road, Hatcher's Run Feb. 1865, Hatcher's Run March 1865, Dabney's Mill, Appomattox

See more information about the 106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in the Civil War