1st Pennsylvania Reserves, Company K

Located on Lincoln Circle in the center of Gettysburg.

The main regimental monument is in the Wheatfield.

From the stone tablet on the front of the monument:

Company K
First Pennsylvania Reserves
(Thirteenth Regiment)
First (McCandless') Brigade
Third (Crawford's) Division
Fifth (Sykes') Corps
Army of the Potomac

Mustered into Pennsylvania service
June 8, 1861

Mustered into Federal service
July 26, 1861

Mustered Out
June 10, 1864

Left side tablet:

Recruited in Adams County, the
men of Company K participated in
eight battles: Mechanicsville, Gaines
Mill, Glendale, South Mountain,
Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania,
and Bethesda Church.

The casualties sustained were 17
who died in service and 23 who were
wounded.

Right side tablet:

During the Battle of Gettysburg
on July 2, 1863, the men of Company K,
in the center of the First Reserves,
helped to repulse the Confederate
attempt to seize Little Round Top,
possession of which was the key to
victory in the battle.

From the bottom center tablet:

This monument was erected
in 1991 by the Adams County
Company K Memorial Committee
as a remembrance of the more
than 2,000 Adams Countians who
participated in the American
Civil War, waged between 1861
and 1865 in a successful effort
to preserve the Federal Union.

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