4TH MICHIGAN INFANTRY WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Location: GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK-DETROBRIAND AVENUE
City: GETTYSBURG
State: Pennsylvania
Zip Code: 17325
Type of Memorial: Stone Carving Memorials
Year Dedicated: 1889
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: CRAIG SWAIN
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
PRESENT AT GETTYSBURG 27 OFFICERS 376 MEN, TOTAL 403
KILLED 1 OFFICER 24 MEN
WOUNDED 9 OFFICERS 55 MEN
MISSING 1 OFFICER 75 MEN
TOTAL LOSS-165
COLONEL HARRISON H. JEFFORDS FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED AT THIS POINT. THRUST THROUGH WITH A BAYONET IN RECAPTURING THE COLORS OF HIS REGIMENT.
“FROM HIS BOSOM THAT HEAVED, THE LAST TORRENT THAT WAS STREAMING, AND PALE WAS HIS VISAGE, DEEP MARKED WITH A SCAR. AND DIM WAS THE EYE, ONCE EXPRESSING BEAMING, THAT MELTED IN LOVE, AND THAT KINDLED IN WAR.”
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