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Antietam National Battlefield
3rd Pennsylvania Reserve (32nd) Volunteer Infantry Monument

Dedicated: September 17, 1906

Location: Mansfield Avenue on the north end of the Battlefield

Map Number: 5

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3rd Pennsylvania Reserve (32nd) Volunteer Infantry Monument

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3rd Pennsylvania Reserve (32nd) Volunteer Infantry Monument

Monument Text:
3rd Regt. Pennsylvania
Reserve Corps
32nd Regt. Penna. Vol. Infantry
2nd Brigade - 3rd Division - 1st Corps

Arriving on the field on the afternoon of September 16th, Lieut. Col. John Clark. Comd'g. the Regiment immediately deployed eight companies as skirmishers.

When the 2nd Brigade advanced on the morning of September 17th, the Regiment fell into line, and 600 yards South of this point became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division.
Number engaged about 200
Casualties at Antietam
Killed 12
Wounded 34
Total 46

 




Battles Participated In


DranesvilleSouth Mountain
MechanicsvilleAntietam
Gaines MillFredericksburg
Charles City Cross Roads    Princeton C. H.
Malvern HillBrushey Mountain
GainesvilleCloyds Mountain
2nd Bull RunNew River Bridge
ChantillyBlacksburg

Virtue, Liberty and Independence

Erected by the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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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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