Taking Requests
In the near future, I’ll be making a trip down to Gettysburg (and perhaps Sharpsburg).
As such I’m opening the floor and I’m taking requests. If you want to see your favorite monument posted and I haven’t hit it yet, here’s your chance to say “Hey Jenny, feature the 999th Pennsylvania.”
(There was no 999th Pennsylvania but there was a 99th, and it was already featured)
Seriously …. If there is a monument you would like me to especially try to get (I make no promises although the weather should be conducive to monument picture taking), please leave me a comment on this post. I have about 25-30 posts already written and set to “self publish” a monument a day over the next month; check out the Order of Battle on the Monument Project Page and you can use that to scope out whether your particular regiment or monument is already set to come up or has already been featured. Otherwise, I’ll try and accomodate requests. If you let me know a particular monument is of interest, I’ll try and get a decent picture and feature it sooner rather than later. A shout out is likely to get your monument featured earlier particularly if the monument is “off the beaten path” or is not otherwise all that unusual or noteworthy. (i.e. all the U.S. infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments are the same)
Otherwise the random, whatever strikes Jenny’s fancy type posting of monuments will continue.
(The randomness will continue anyway for awhile because I probably won’t be writing many if any posts while on vacation. But when I get back, I will take requests into consideration.)
Tags: Gettysburg, travel
There is a monument on Little Round Top that has a picture on it. Iam not sure which regiment.
I guess there are a lot on Little Round Top as a major defensive position.
Jenny,
Would you try to get the 16th PA Cavalry? I missed it on my last trip, and won’t be back there from CO any time soon. It’s actually a caavlry monument of a dismounted cavalryman, located out at East Cavalry Field.
So the Regular units’ monuments don’t get featured because the government lacks imagination? That’s kinda sad. 8^)
I found that you have it already. It was the 140th NY.
If you make it down to Antietam, please stop by and say hello. . .
John
Jenny,
How about the 83rd PA on LRT. Where do you get your info? Is it all in the Hawthorne book?
Rich
Hi Jenny,
How about something from a NJ cavalry? Unless I’m missing it, I feel like that’s the one state that’s missing.
I know everyone likes to make fun of NJ, but for those of us who live here, we know that it is beautiful in many places!
Kind regards and well wishes,
Megan
Jenny,
I was going to suggest the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry monument–one of the least visited on the field, but Don beat me to it.
Instead, let me second his vote.
Once you’re done with chemo, if you want to visit the 6th Corps monuments on Neill Avenue, aka the Lost Avenue, let me know, and I can arrange a private tour for you with old friend Dean Shultz.
Eric
And, just to correct Don, it is NOT on ECF. It can be found near there. To get there, head east on 116, toward ECF. Just before you get to the US 15 bypass, you will see a right turn for Highland Avenue. Make that right turn and go about half a mile. You will find our lonely cavalryman on your left, next to a brick church, near the intersection with Clapsaddle Road.
Eric
I stand corrected, and have made the appropriate notes for my next trip. 8^)
I haven’t been to East Cavalry yet, but I’ll make a point to try and get the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry. And I think there was only one New Jersey cavalry regiment and it has its monument there too. I’m not sure which day I’ll get there, but I’ll get there. :)
And if I do make it to Sharpsburg I’ll stop by and see if Ranger Hoptak is around. It would probably would be on Saturday or Sunday.
Info comes from Hawthorne’s book which features many of the monuments (but not nearly all), internet regimental sites, and Ed Raus’s invaluable book “A Generation on the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg.” This book has awesome maps. You can look up a regiment and then look at the maps and find where the monument is. It is a really cool little book (though it has an odd pink cover. It is my only pink Civil War book.). I bought it at the Visitor Center several years ago.
I’m going to feature each of the US Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry. Eventually. I’m collecting pics and the 7th US infantry at least is going to come up somewhere in the near future.
And Eric, I’d definitely be up after chemo sometime to going to Lost Avenue. I’ve never been there but have always wanted to go!
The 83d PA was in the Fifth Corps, 1st Division, 3rd Brigade. Here is a link: http://www.drawthesword.goellnitz.org/?p=74
It was featured early in the process on May 16th. I have good ones of the 44th New York but not 16th Michigan to finish out Vincent’s Brigade.
I should also say I’m not trying to get them all this trip … then there would be no reason for future trips. There is method to my madness! :)
Jenny,
Since you opened up the request line, how about the 77th New York? I think they qualify as somewhat off the beaten path (somewhere around Powers Hill, I believe). I meant to track it down last time I drove through, but spent too long checking out the landscape restoration and ran out of time.
Thanks,
Jim
Jenny,
When you’re ready, just let me know, and I will arrange it for you.
Dean loves to show off his little treasure, and it’s definitely worth seeing.
Eric