20th Maine Infantry Monument, (sculpture).

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20th Maine Infantry Monument, (sculpture).

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20th Maine Infantry Monument, (sculpture).

Twentieth Maine Infantry Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated June 1886.

Monument: Hallowell granite; Base: granite.

Monument: approx. 4 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 3 in. x 3 ft. 3 in.; Base: approx. 1 ft. 2 in. x 4 ft. x 4 ft.

(On front of monument:) TWENTIETH MAINE/THIRD BRIG. (Engraving of 11th Corps Cross) FIRST DIV./FIFTH CORPS (On side of monument:) HERE THE 20TH MAINE REGIMENT/COL. J. L. CHAMBERLAIN COMMANDING. FORMING THE/EXTREME LEFT OF THE NATIONAL LINE OF BATTLE./ON THE 2ND DAY OF JULY, 1863. REPULSED THE/ATTACK OF THE EXTREME RIGHT OF LONGSTREET'S/CORPS. AND CHARGED IN TURN, CAPTURING 308/PRISONERS. THE REGIMENT LOST 38 KILLED OR/MORTALLY WOUNDED, AND 93 WOUNDED OUT OF/358 ENGAGED./THIS MONUMENT ERECTED BY SURVIVORS OF/ THE REGIMENT. A.D. 1888./MARKS VERY NEARLY/THE SPOT WHERE COLORS STOOD (On rear: list of names) (On right side: names of officers and men of the 20th Maine volunteers who were killed or died of wounds received in this action) signed

Polished granite rectangular block monument with apex top and cross emblem on front, set atop boulder.

History -- United States -- Civil War

History -- United States -- Maine

Emblem -- Cross

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg

Administered by United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, District of Columbia

Administered by Gettysburg National Military Park, 97 Taneytown Road, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325

Located Gettysburg National Military Park, South slope of Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325

The monument is installed on the rocks where the infantry's colors where planted and where Col. Joshua Chamberlain stood when he refused his line into a V to meet the oncoming Alabaman's on the late evening of July 2, 1863. The monument (referred to as MN 89) is listed on the National Park Service List of Classified Structures and is referenced in the Gettysburg National Military Park Archives, vol. 14. IAS files contain a copy of the LCS report form.

Surveyed 1995 April. Treatment needed.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA2008, 1989.

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