1st Vermont Brigade Monument, (sculpture).

1st Vermont Brigade Monument, (sculpture).

Reed, C. W., designer.

Beattie, H. W., sculptor.

Brooks, Richard Edwin, 1865-1919, modeler.

Carrick Brothers, fabricator.

1st Vermont Brigade Monument, (sculpture).

Grant's 1st Vermont Brigade Monument, (sculpture).

First Vermont Brigade Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated Oct. 9, 1889.

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Sculpture: light Dummerston granite; Base: granite.

Sculpture: approx. H. 8 1/2 ft.; Base: approx. 4 x 4 x 9 ft.

(On base, left:) FIRST VERMONT BRIGADE/SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH REGIMENTS./SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, SIXTH COPRS./ORGANIZED IN THE SUMMER OF 1861 BY MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM F./SMITH, AND COMMANDED BY BRIG. GEN. W. T. H. BROOKS AND BRIG. GEN. AND/BREVET. MAJ. GEN. L. A. GRANT. THIS BRIGADE FOUGHT IN WHOLE OR PART/WITH THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC FROM THE FIRST BULL RUN TO APPOMATTOX./AGGREGATING-INCLUDING THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT, FOR A YEAR/PART OF THE BRIGADE-11,137 OFFICERS AND MEN, IT GAVE 2,439 LIVE/TO THE UNION CAUSE. KILLED AND MORTALLY WOUNDED IN ACTION,/1,128, DIED OF DISEASE AND BY ACCIDENT, 1009, DIED IN CONFEDERATE PRISONS, 302, WOUNDED NOT MORTALLY 2,265 - TOTAL 4,704. (On right:) REACHING THIS FIELD BY A FORCED MARCH OF THIRTY-TWO MILES/IN THE EVENING OF JULY 2, THE BRIGADE TOOK POSITION ON THE LEFT/UNION FLANK, NEAR THIS POINT IN ANTICIPATION OF AN ATTACK BY/THE ENEMY, AND HELD THE SAME JULY 3RD AND 4TH./FIRST BULL RUN SALEM HEIGHTS WELDON RAILROAD/LEE'S MILL FREDERICKSBURG [date] CHARLESTOWN/WILLIAMSBURG GETTYSBURG [copy illegible]/GOLDINGS FARM FUNKSTOWN FISHER'S HILL/SAVAGE STATION RAPPAHANNOCK STA. CEDAR CREEK/WHITE OAK SWAMP WILDERNESS PETERSBURG [date] /CRAMPTON'S PASS SPOTTSYLVANIA (sic) PETERSBURG [date]/ANTIETAM COLD HARBOR SAILOR'S CREEK/FREDERICKSBURG [date] PETERSBURG [date]/MARYE'S HEIGHTS REAM'S STATION unsigned

Monument consists on a full-maned lion on a rectangular base. The lion appears to be rising from slumber, as he pushes himself up by his front paws. His mouth is open, as though in mid-roar. The Corps insignia of a cross is in low relief on the front of the base.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Emblem -- Military Insignia

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, Wright Avenue, north side, near Plank Farm Lane, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325

Although never engaged actively, the 1st Vermont Brigade was exposed to solid shot and shell during the Gettysburg campaign. The monument (referred to as MN 376) is listed on the National Park Service List of Classified Structures and is referenced in the Gettysburg National Military Park Archives, vol. 37. Along with a number of other Gettysburg monuments, this piece was vandalized on March 4, 1913.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA5062, 1989.

Monumental News, May 1913, pg. 339.

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