Focus: 12th Pennsylvania Reserves
Posted to the Project on 27 May 07
The monument series continues with the 12th Pennsylvania Reserves (41st Pennsylvania Infantry, alternate designation)
Seeing this monument requires Gettysburg visitors do some leg work; it is located at the crest of Big Round Top. The only way to see this monument is to hike up to the top of Big Round Top.
With nine companies at Gettysburg, the 12th Reserve Regiment brought 320 men to Gettysburg, of which 1 was killed and 1 was wounded. The commander of the unit was Colonel Martin D. Hardin (1837-1923). An Illinois native, Hardin graduated from West Point with the class of 1859. He retired from the army in 1870 at the rank of brigadeir general.
Mainly from Philadelphia, the regiment also had men from the counties of Bradford, Dauphin, Indiana, Huntindon, Franklin, Northhampton, Westmoreland, Wyoming, and York.
Members of the 5th Corps, 3rd Division, 3rd Brigade
Commander: Col. Martin D. Hardin (1837-1923)
Engaged: 320; 1 killed, 1 wounded
Monument: Summit of Big Round Top