118th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
"Corn Exchange Regiment"

Three momuments to the One Hundred Eighteenth Pennsylvania Regiment are south of Gettysburg on Sickles Avenue (above right), Wheatfield Road (lower right) and on Big Round Top. see map

From around the top of the Sickles Avenue monument, dedicated by the State of Pennsylvania in 1889:

Corn
Exchange
118th. Penna. Infantry
1st Brigade
1st Division
5th Corps

From the left side:

First Position
July 2d
July 3rd on
Big Round Top
Present at
Gettysburg 332
Killed 3 Wounded 19
Captured or missing 3

From the right side:

Antietam to
Appomattox
Total enrollment
1500
Killed and mortally
wounded 136
Wounded 330
Captured or missing 290

From the rear:

Recruited in
Philadelphia
Mustered in
Aug. 30, 1862
Mustered out
June 1, 1865.

The face of the monument bears the Maltese Cross of the Union 5th Army Corps below a bronze plaque of the Seal of the State of Pennsylvania. Carved ears of corn are at the top of both sides of the monument.

From the Wheatfield Avenue position marker:

2nd position of 118 P.V.
'Corn Exchange Regt.'
July 2nd 1863.
1st Brig. 1st. Div. 5th Corps

From the front of the monument on Big Round Top, erected in 1884:

118th Penna. Vol's
Corn Exchange Reg't
1st Brigade 1st Division 5th Corps
Army of the Potomac

From the left side:

Engaged in advance
of "Wheat Field" July 2,
and held this position
July 3, and 4, 1863.

From the right side:

Erected in their honor
by the Commercial Exchange
formerly Corn Exchange
of Philadelphia, and the
surviving members of
the Regiment.

From the rear:

Mustered into service
August 30, 1862
Mustered out June 1, 1865
Participated in 34 battles
Killed in battle 205
Died of wounds and disease 500
Missing in action 273
Original muster 960
Recruits 456
Final muster of original members 139.

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel James Gwyn.

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