Union monuments - Pennsylvania Infantry

147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

The monument to the 147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment is southeast of Gettysburg on Geary Avenue (above right) along with two unique star-shaped flank markers (below). There is a similar marker showing the regiment's location on the evening of July 1st on the northern edge of Little Round Top at the corner of Sykes Avenue and Wheatfield Road (center right) and a tablet on a large boulder in the middle of Pardee Field (bottom right) where the regiment attacked on the morning of July 3rd. (See map)

The 147th Pennsylvania was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Ario Pardee and brought eight companies to the field, Companies I and K not yet having formed. The star theme of the markers is from the symbol of the Union Twelfth Army Corps, which led to General Geary's 2nd Division to be known as the 'White Star Division.'

See more about the 147th Pennsylvania Infantry >

From the front of the main monument:

147th
Pennsylvania Infantry,
1st Brigade,
2nd Division,
12th corps,
July 3d 1863

From the back:

Mustered in
Oct. 28th 1862.
Reenlisted Dec. 29th 1863. Mustered out July 15th 1865On the night of July 1st this regiment lay on the northern slope of Little Round Top holding the extreme left of the
Union army. At 6 am July 2d moved to Culp's Hill, where
it was held in reserve until evening, then marched
toward the left with the Brigade
returning at about 3 a.m. July 3rd and
occupied this position.

Present at Gettysburg
12 officers and 286 men.
Killed and mortally wounded
1 officer and 5 men.
Wounded 14 men.

Immediately behind and to the left of the main monument is a marker to Company G:

Co. G.
147th P.V.I.
12 A.C.
July 3, 1863

From the tablet on the Pardee Field boulder:

At 5 a.m. the one hundred and forty-
seventh Penna. Volunteers (Lt. Col. Ario Pardee Jr.)
was ordered to charge and carry the stone
wall occupied by the enemy. This they did in
handsome style, their firing causing heavy
loss to the enemy who then abandoned
the entire line of the stone wall.
Report of Brig. General John W. Geary,
commanding 2d Division 12th Corps

From the front of the marker on Little Round Top, which shows the regiment's position shortly after it arrived n the field late on July 1:

147 Regiment Infantry
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers
Night of July 1
1863

From the rear:

1st Brigade 2nd Division
12th Army Corps

See more about the 147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in the Civil War