Union monuments - Pennsylvania Infantry

6th Pennsylvania Reserves
(35th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment)

The monument to the Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves is south of Gettysburg at The Wheatfield.

Location: 39.797524 N, 77.240099 W; see map

The 6th Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Wellington H. Ent.

From the front of the monument:

6th Pennsylvania
Reserves
35th Infantry
1st Brigade 3d Division
5th Corps

From the left side:

July 2d in the evening
charged from the hill
in rear to this position
and held it until the
afternoon of July 3d
when the brigade advanced
through the woods to
the front and left driving
the enemy and capturing
many prisoners

Dranesville Peninsula Campaign
Groveton 2d Bull Run South Mountain
Antietam Fredericksburg Gettysburg
Bristoe Station Rappahannock Station
Mine Run Wilderness Spotsylvania
North Anna Totopotomoy Bethesda Church

from the right side:

Mustered in
May 28 - June 11, 1861.
Mustered out June 11 1864.

Present at Gettysburg
25 officers and 355 men.
Killed and died of wounds 3 men.
Wounded 1 officer and 20 men.

From the rear:

Recruited in Bradford,
Columbia, Dauphin, Tioga,
Susquehana, Snyder,
Wayne and
Montgomery Counties.

Total enrollment 1050.
Killed and died of wounds, 2 officers 107 men.
Died of disease etc., 72 men.
Wounded, 19 officers 286 men.
Captured or missing, 2 officers 526 men.
Total casualties 549.

See more about the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves Regimet during the Civil War