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.
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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