Greene's - Third Brigade
Geary's - Second Division
[Front Side of Monument]
78th New York Infantry
137th New York Infantry
149th New York Infantry
Greene's - Third Brigade
Geary's - Second Division
Slocum's - Twelfth Corps
Hooker's Command
11th and 12th Corps
Army of the Potomac
Oct. 28-29 1863
[Reverse Side of Monument]
Two sections of Knap's Penna. Battery and six regiments of Geary's Division encamped here on evening of Uctober 28, 1863, and here attacked at midnight by Bratton's South Carolina Brigade, Longstreet's Corps. The battery held summit of knoll a few yards south - west of this point. The Infantry battle line enveloped position occupied by Battery in form of a horseshoe, centre facing north. The 137th N.Y. Infantry held the left of the line along a fence facing northerly and westerly. The 149th N.Y. Infantry were on the right of the line along railroad embankment, facing easterly with its left near this monument; the 78th N.Y. Infantry in reserve, occupied threatened positions alternately on extreme left and right during engagement which lasted three hours, the Confederates retiring.
Brig.-Gen. Geo. S. Greene was wounded and Col. David S. Ireland assumed of the Third Brigade during the battle.
Casualties
Staff......................Wounded 1
78th New York,.............Wounded 2
137th New York, Killed 15, Wounded 75
149th New York, Killed 01, Wounded 12
Total Killed and Wounded, 106
The New York Regiments engaged here
numbered 44 Officers and 745 Men.
Marker is on Wauhatchie Pike south of Cummings Highway (U.S. 41), on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
