• Burnside Bridge across Antietam Creek

    Antietam

    National Battlefield Maryland

12th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument

Dedicated: September 17, 1904

Location: Mansfield Avenue

Map Number: 7

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12th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument

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12th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument

Monument Text:
12th Pennsylvania Cavalry
113th of the line
4th Brigade
Cavalry Division
Recruited in Philadelpia.

Second Manassas
Fisher's Hill
Clarksburg
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Monocacy
Charlestown
South Mountain
Frederick
Maryland Heights
Antietam
Newtown
Hamilton
Moorfield
Winchester 1-2-3
Bunker Hill
Woodstock
Cedar Creek
Smithfield
Sleepy Creek
Dunningham Cross Roads
Bolivar Heights
Solomon's Gap
Crampton's Pass
Pleasant Valley
Kernstown
Halltown
Edenburg
Boonsboro

Virtue, Liberty and Independence
Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Six generals were killed or mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam - 3 Union and 3 Confederate. Today, the location where they were killed is marked by a mortuary cannon, a cannon barrel muzzle down in a block of stone.