49th New York Infantry
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Corps
(Front):
49th
N.Y. Inf'y
3rd Brig. 2d Div.
6th Corps.
Held this position
May 12, 1864.
(Left):The muffled drums
sad roll has beat.
The soldiers last
tattoo.
No more on life's
parade shall meet
that brave and
fallen few.
On fame's eternal
camping ground
their silent tents
are spread
and glory guards
with solemn round
the bivouac of
the dead.
(Right):
1864
In memory
of the
brave men
killed on this field
———
Erected
by
their surviving comrades
———
dedicated Oct. 9
1902(Back):
Captains
Ruben B. Heacock
Seward H. Terry
Lieutenants
Herman Haase
Mortimer L. V. Tyler
John P. McVean
Sergeants
Philip S. Moriarity
John H. Richards
Elijah H. Shippee
Henry R. Rogers
Corporals
Franklin B. Parker
Matthias Berndt
Robert Merrill
William H. Nichols
Arthur Cooper
Julius Goldschmidt
Patrick Murphy
Gilbert D. Harris
Thomas Orr
John S. Grisley
Lafayette Hunting
Samuel W. Pearce
Privates
Harmor Dawson
William Doolittle
John O'Neill
Charles L. Truax
George Voltze
Henry Dayton
William H. Williams
Mortimer Herrick
George Partridge
Frederick Schultz
Dayton R. Leeland
James McGorey
Thomas Apthorp
Timothy O'Regan
Frederick Schultz
Thomas Brooks
Oscar S. Kimball
Daniel Wilcox
Marker can be reached from Grant Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
