Union Monuments, Vermont

2nd Regiment United States Sharpshooters
Companies E & H "Vermont Sharpshooters"

The monument to Vermont's Companies E and H of the Second United States Sharpshooters is south of Gettysburg on the Slyder Farm. see map

From the front of the monument:

Companies E and H
Second United States
Sharpshooters.
Second Brigade
First Division, Third Corps
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Arrived on the field July 1 at 6 p.m..
July 2, met the onset of Longstreet's
Corps near this point and helped to
check its advance upon Round Top.
July 3, reinforced the front lines in
the repulse of Pickett's Assault.
July 4, skirmished all day along the
Emmettsburg Road.
Number Engaged, 48, wounded, 9,
captured, 5.

From the rear:

Organized in November and
December 1861 and, aggregating 430
officers and men, these companies
took part in the battles of Orange
Court House, Rappahannock Station,
Sulphur Springs, Second Bull Run,
South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericks-
burg. Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,
Wappings Heights, Auburn, VA., Kelly's
Ford, Brandy Station, Orange Grove,
Mine Run, Wilderness, Po River, Spotts-
ylvania, North Anna, Totopotomoy, Cold
Harbor, Petersburg, June 16 '64, Deep
Bottom, Petersburg Sept. 10 '64, Boyden
Plank Road, Weldon Railrod,and Hatcher's
Run. Consolidated with Fourth Vermont
Feb. 25, 1865, these companies served with
that regiment to the close of the war.
Killed and mortally wounded, 40,
wounded, 90; mustered out July, 1865.

Col. Hiram Berdan's two regiments of sharpshooters were unique in the Union army, using different uniforms, weapons, equipment and tactics from the "line units". Although operating as United States Army units, each company within the regiments was formed of recruits from a single state. After the war the states (Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin) erected monuments to their respective companies.

The 2nd Regiment was commanded by Homer R. Stoughton. It brought 204 men to the field and lost 5 killed, 23 wounded and 15 missing.

Companies E & H of the 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters are also honored by a monument at Antietam