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Rhode Island Battery A Battery B Battery E 2nd Infantry

Second Rhode Island
Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Attached to 2nd Brigade. 3rd Division 6th Army Corps

The monument to the Second Rhode Island Infantry Regiment is south of Gettysburg on Sedgwick Avenue. (39.795597° N, 77.234104° W; map) It was dedicated in 1886 by the State of Rhode Island.

A marker on Emmitsburg Road (bottom right) shows the location of the regiment's skirmish line on July 4th. (39.809832° N, 77.242181° W; map)

About the monument to the 2nd Rhode Island

The granite monument stands a little over nine feet tall. It is capped with a bronze arrangement of a drum, canteen, cartridge box, bayonet and a laurel crown of victory. The front has an incised Seal of the State of Rhode Island, with a relief of the Greek cross of the Sixth Corps above the base.

The 2nd Rhode Island at Gettysburg

The Second Rhode Island was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Colonel Horatio Rogers, Jr., an attorney from Providence. It brought 409 men to the field, losing one killed, five wounded and one missing.

See Colonel Rogers' Official Report for the 2nd Rhode Island Vounteer Infantry in the Battle of Gettysburg

Monument map: Sedgwick Avenue

From the monument:

2nd R.I.
Volunteers
2nd Brigade
3rd Division
Sixth Corps

July 2 & 3, 1863

From the marker:

Skirmish line
2nd R.I. Volunteers
Colonel Horatio Rogers, Jr.
2nd Brigade 3rd Division
Sixth Corps
July 4, 1863

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