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2nd Massachusetts Sharpshooters Monument

Birth
Death
unknown
Burial
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.7970123, Longitude: -77.2463684
Plot
Wheatfield at the Loop
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Also known as 2nd Andrews Sharpshooters

The monument was dedicated in 1885, depicting the efforts of them men who fought with Colonel Hiram Berdan's elite Sharpshooter unit, originally posted at the front of the main Union line in the Wheatfield to slow the impending Confederate advance.

The end of the rifle is not broken off, it was never complated.
Also known as 2nd Andrews Sharpshooters

The monument was dedicated in 1885, depicting the efforts of them men who fought with Colonel Hiram Berdan's elite Sharpshooter unit, originally posted at the front of the main Union line in the Wheatfield to slow the impending Confederate advance.

The end of the rifle is not broken off, it was never complated.

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