20th Massachusetts Infantry
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division
(Front):20th Mass. Infantry.
3rd Brig. 2nd Div. 2nd Corps.
July 3rd 1863.
(Back):
This monument marks the position occupied by the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry
in line of battle July 2d & 3d 1863 until advanced to the front of the copse of
trees on its immediate right to assist in repelling the charge of
Longstreet's Corps
This tablet is placed by their comrades in honor of
Colonel Paul Joseph Revere
First Lieutenant Henry Ropes, Second Lieutenant Sumner Paine
and forty-one enlisted men
who were killed or mortally wounded
Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
