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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

Dranesville South Mountain
Mechanicsville Antietam
Gaines Mill Fredericksburg
Charles City Cross Roads      Princeton C. H.
Malvern Hill Brushey Mountain
Gainesville Cloyds Mountain
2nd Bull Run New River Bridge
Chantilly Blacksburg

Virtue, Liberty and Independence
Erected by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
William McKinley as a soldier and president.  

Did You Know?
William McKinley served at Antietam as a Commissary Sergeant in the 23rd Ohio Infantry before becoming the nation’s 25th President. A monument to him at Antietam was dedicated in his memory on October 13, 1903, two years after he was assassinated.

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