Second Massachusetts Infantry
(Front):
From the hill behind this monument on
the morning of July third 1863 the
Second Massachusetts Infantry
made an assault upon the Confederate
troops in the works at the base of Culp's
Hill opposite. The regiment carried to
the charge 22 officers and 294 enlisted
men. It lost 4 officers and 41 enlisted
men killed and mortally wounded and 6
officers and 84 enlisted men wounded.
To perpetuate the honored memories of
that hour the survivors of the Regiment
have raised this stone. 1879.
(Back):
Lieut. Col. Charles R. Mudge • Captain Thomas R. Robeson
Captain Thomas B. Fox • Lieut. Henry V.D. Stone
Color Bearers - Leavitt C. Durgin • Rupert J Sadler • Steven Cody
First Sergeant Alonzo J. Babcock - Sergeant William H. Blunt
Corporals
Charles Burdett • Jeremiah S. Hall • Ruel Whittier
Theodore S. Butters • Patrick Heoy • Gordon S. Wilson
Privates
Samuel T. Alton • James T. Edmunds • Charles Kiernan
George M. Bailey • William H. Ela • William Marshall
Henry C. Ball • John E. Farrington • Frederick Maynard
Wallace Bascom • Silas R. Foster • Andrew Nelson
John Briggs, Jr. • Willard Foster • Rufus A. Farker
David B. Brown • Joseph Furber • Philo H. Peck
William T. Bullard • Fritz Goetz • Sideny S. Prouty
James A. Chage • Daniel A. Hatch • Richard Seavers
Peter Conlan • John J. Jewett • Charles Trayner
John Derr • John Joy • David L. Wade
Marker is at the intersection of Colgrove Avenue and East Confederate Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Colgrove Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
