Draw the Sword

Location: The National Cemetery.

Dedication Date: July 2, 1893.

Sculptor/Artist/Company: Buberl, Caspar, 1834-1899, sculptor. Hallowell Granite Company, fabricator. Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.

Main Inscription: TO THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS/OF THE/STATE OF NEW YORK/WHO FELL IN THE/BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG JULY 1,2,3, 1863/MANY OF WHOM ARE HERE BURIED./THIS MONUMENT IS/ERECTED BY A GRATEFUL COMMONWEALTH

Monument Specifications: At the top of a Fox Island granite column stands an allegorical female figure representing the state of New York. She holds a staff in her proper left hand and a wreath in her proper right hand. The foot of the column is adorned with a bronze New York state seal and a bronze relief depicting New York generals at Gettysburg. Below the column is a block made of Hallowell granite adorned with bronze inscription plaques. Atop the monument sits a 13 foot tall and 6,200 pound statue of Liberty, crying over the dead, with her right hand outstretched to place a wreath upon their graves. Bronze plaques around the base list the names of every New York officer who fell at Gettysburg. The individual corps badges and the branches of service are also honored by bronze plaques. Around the thirty-three foot column is wrapped a bronze relief representing key moments in battle — the wounding of Sickles on July 2; the wounding of Hancock on July 3; Slocum’s council of War on Culp’s Hill on July 3; and finally the death of General Reynolds on the morning of July 1. It cost just over $59,000 and consists of Hallowell granite and bronze.

Other Monuments: The New York State Auxiliary Monument – New York Officers Monument.

Location: South Hancock Avenue near the Pennsylvania Monument

Dedication Date: Sept. 9, 1925. Nearly one-hundred veterans (2/3rds of whom fought in the battle) attended the 1925 dedication of the monument.

Sculptor/Artist/Company: Brush, Gerome, sculptor. Casey, Edward Pearce, 1864-1940, architect. John Swenson Granite Company, fabricator.

Monument Specifications: Semicircular wall monument is made up of eighteen panels with a seat below, running nearly the length of the wall. The New York State Coat of Arms appears in relief on the protruding center structure which is surmounted by a eagle with wings spread upward. The names of forty-one officers who commanded units at Gettysburg are listed.