96th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

The monument to the Ninety Sixth Pennsylvania Infantry is south of Gettysburg on Wheatfield Road. See map >

From the left side monument:

Position of the 96th Regt. Penna. Volunteers,
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps
from 5 p.m. of the 2nd until the morning
of the 5th of July 1863.

From the right side:

Organized at and mustered in at Pottsville,
Schuylkill County Penna. September 28, 1861.
Mustered out at Hestonville West Philadelphia
Penna, October 21 1864.

The monument has a carved footprint in the "mud" next to the prone soldier.

The regiment was commanded by Major William H. Lessig. It brought 356 men to the field and lost 1 man wounded.

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