98th Pennsylvania Infantry

Located along the Weikert Farm lane, just to the north of the Wheatfield Road in the “Valley of Death,” is the simple monument to the 98th Pennsylvania. The monument’s main feature is the Sixth Corps badge at the capstone and the bronze state seal seen on all Pennsylvania’s regimental monuments. The inscriptions on this monument need repointing as they are badly fading with the passage of time.

Raised from Philadelphia in the late summer of 1861, the regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Maj. John B. Kohler (1819-1864), a German born stove maker who was killed as the regiment’s lieutenant colonel at the battle of Cedar Creek. A secondary monument stands on Sykes Avenue on Little Round Top. This monument marks the unit’s position on the evening of July 2, 1863.

98th Pennsylvania Infantry

6th Corps, 3rd Division, 3rd Brigade

Maj. John B. Kohler (1819-1864)

Engaged: 406; 11 wounded

Monument: Field north of the Wheatfield Road

Tags: Gettysburg, Monument Project, Pennsylvania, Valley of Death, VI Corps