• Cannon and Cornfield at Dawn

    Antietam

    National Battlefield Maryland

50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument

Dedicated: September 17, 1904

Location: Rodman Avenue

Map Number: 71

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50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument

50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument

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1st Brigade
1st Division
9th Corps
Colonel Benjamin C. Christ
Casualties at Antietam
Killed 8
Wounded 46
Missing 3
Total 57

Recruited in Berks, Schuylkill, Bradford, Susquehanna, Lancaster and Luzerne Counties.

 
Battles participated in:
CoosawSpotsylvania
PocotaligoN.Y. River
Second Bull RunNorth Anna
ChantillyBethesda Church
South MountainCold Harbor
AntietamPetersburg

Fredericksburg


The Crater
VicksburgWeldon Railroad
JacksonReam's Station
Blue SpringsPoplar Spring Church
Campbell's StationHatcher's Run
Siege of KnoxvilleFort McGilvery
WildernessFort Stedman

Assault on Petersburg


Did You Know?

President Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln visited Antietam Battlefield two weeks after the battle and spent four days visiting General George McClellan, touring the battlefield and visiting the wounded of both sides.