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Antietam National Battlefield
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
15th Massachusetts Infantry Monument  

Did You Know?
The 15th Massachusetts Infantry went into the Battle of Antietam with 606 soldiers. 318 were killed or wounded, the highest number for any Union regiment in the battle. Their monument features a wounded lion carved in granite.

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