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Two companies of Massachusetts sharpshooters, a rarity in the American Civil War, fought as independent units attached to other commands. The 2nd Company of (Governor) Andrews sharpshooters was attached to the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry…
The monument to the 74th Pennsylvania Infantry is a rarity in Civil War statuary, depicting not a fighting soldier or a marching soldier, but one in the throes of death. In a pose based on the popular "Dying Gaul," a widely reproduced…
Patrick Henry "Paddy" O'Rorke or O'Rourke was an Irish-American immigrant who became a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. The monument to the 140th NYSV at Gettysburg sits…
