72nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Philadelphia Brigade
Erected by 72nd Regt. P.V.
The ground of the last assault
the Philadelphia Brigade
Gen. Alexander Webb
held this angle July 2d and 3d 1863
casualties in the battle 495
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The 72d Penn. Vol's
"Philadelphia Fire Zouaves"
Colonel D.W.C. Baxter
lost 10 officers and 182 men
out of 473 present for duty
the regiment erects this tribute
to the memory of fallen comrades
Philadelphia Brigade.
Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
