Ireland's Third Brigade
Second Division
[Front Side of Marker]
80th New York Infantry
102nd New York Infantry
137th New York Infantry
149th New York Infantry
Ireland's - Third Brigade
Geary's - Second Division
Slocum's - Twelfth Corps
Hooker's Command
11th and 12th Corps
Army of the Potomac
November 25, 1863
[Reverse Side of Marker]
The New York Infantry Regiments of Ireland's Brigade suporting Landgraeber's Battery on west side of Missionary Ridge on afternoon of November 25, 1863, advanced and connected with the right of Palmer's 14th Corps. They assisted in breaking the lines of Breckinridge's Confederate Corps, the Division capturing many prisoners.
The skirmishers of the Brigade reached this point and beyond.
The main body of the Brigade bivouacked at the foot of the hill, in the Confederate camps.
Marker is on South Crest Road north of East View Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
