30th Pennsylvania Infantry
1st Pennsylvania Reserves
(Around Top Crown)30th Infantry
1st Pennsylvania Reserves
(Around Lower Step):1st Brigade 3d Division 5th Corps
Co. K Recruited at Gettysburg
(Front):Present at Gettysburg
26 officers & 418 men
Killed & died of wounds 13 men
Wounded 3 officers 30 men
Total enrollment 1100
Killed & died of wounds
6 officers 102 men
Died of disease etc. 2 officers 65 men
Wounded 16 officers 311 men
Captured or missing 3 officers 83 men
(Total) 27 officers and 561 men
Total casualties 588
(Left):Mustered in May 30
June 10 1861
Mustered out June 13 1864
Recruited in Chester,
Lancaster, Delaware,
York, Cumberland
and Adams Counties
Co K recruited at Gettysburg
(Back):July 2d in the evening
charged from the hill
in rear to this position
of July 3d when the Brigade
advanced through the
woods to the front and left
driving the enemy and
capturing many prisoners
(Right):Mechanicsville, Gainesville,
Glendale or New Market
Cross Roads, Malvern Hill,
Groveton, 2d. Bull Run,
South Mountain, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,
Bristoe Station, Rappahannock
Station, Mine Run, Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, North Anna,
Totopotomy, Bethesda Church
Marker is on Ayres Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
