106th Pennsylvania Infantry

The 106th Pennsylvania was part of the Philadelphia Brigade. It was known also as the 5th California. It was recruited from Philadelphia and the counties of Bradford and Lycoming. The commander at Gettysburg was Lt. Col. William L. Curry (1833-1864), a paperhanger in Philadelphia morally wounded at Spotsylvania.

The monument is located behind the copse of trees at the Angle. It was built using the state appropriation money and dedicated on September 12, 1889. The sculptor was John Walz and the monument consists of white Westerly Granite. A stack of three drums makes up the trefoil shape of the 2nd Corps. The front face of the monument features a bronze plaque of the regiment’s charge of the Codori House on July 2. The regiment’s original monument that stood in this spot is now located near the Codori House.

106th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Corps, 2nd Division, 2nd Brigade

Engaged: 335; 9 killed, 54 wounded, 1 missing

Monument: The Angle; secondary monuments at the Codori House and East Cemetery Hill

Tags: Angle, Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, II Corps, Monument Project, Pennsylvania