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Monuments honoring the 16th and 18th Massachusetts Volunteers

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Two prints on one mount. The image on the left is of the monument to 16th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The monument is a tall tapered rectangular monument with a domed top. At the top is the diamond of the Union 3rd Army Corps. Below that is a bronze tablet inscribed: Sixteenth Massachusetts / 1st Brigade 2nd Division 3rd Corps / Army of the Potomac / On this field July 2nd 1863 / 4 Officers and 25 Enlisted men / were killed / To whose memory this monument / is erected by the / Commonwealth of Massachusetts. At the base: 16th Mass. Vols. The image on the right is the monument to the 18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The monument is a squat obelisk set in wooded terrain. On the front of the monument is inscribed: 18th / Mass. Vol.s / First Brig. / First Div. / 5th. Corps. / Let us have peace. On the side of the monument is inscribed: Little Round Top / July 3, 1863. Behind the monument to the 18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment is the back of the monument to the 28th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
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Date
circa 1890
Call number
photCL 308 (24)
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