35th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Dedicated: 1898
Location: East side of Antietam Creek at Burnside Bridge
Map Number: Map 2, Position 82
   
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The Thirty-fifth Regiment
of
Massachusetts Volunteers
Crossed this bridge with Ferrero's
Brigade, Ninth Army Corps
at noon, Sept. 17, 1862, and
moved to the right up the hill
where, at the lane, two hundred
and fourteen of their officers
and men were killed or wounded.

Gloria est Pro Patria Mori

Erected by Lieut. Col. Albert A. Pope, as a memorial of his dead comrades.

 

 

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