Administered by United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Washington District of Columbia
Administered by Gettysburg National Military Park 97 Taneytown Road Gettysburg Pennsylvania 17325
Located at Gettysburg National Military Park Hancock Avenue Gettysburg Pennsylvania 17325
Date:
Dedicated Oct. 1889
Notes:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
Gettysburg Battlefield.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
Image on file.
(On front of base, on Vermont state seal:) FREEDOM/VERMONT/AND UNITY/VERMONT/IN HONOR OF HER SONS/WHO FOUGHT ON THIS FIELD (On back of base: description of action at Gettysburg) (On left side of base:) FIRST VERMONT BRIGADE/SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH/AND SIXTH REGIMENTS:/BRIG. GEN. L. A. GRANT COMMANDING:/SECOND BRIGADE SECOND DIVISION, SIXTH CORPS./THE BRIGADE REACHED THE FIELD/NEAR LITTLE ROUND TOP IN THE AFTERNOON/OF JULY 2, 1863 BY A FORCED MARCH OF/THIRTY-TWO MILES AND SOON AFTER/WAS ASSIGNED TO THE LEFT UNION FLANK/WHERE IT HELD A LINE FROM THE SUMMIT OF/ROUND TOP TO THE TANEYTOWN ROAD/UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE BATTLE
(On right side of base:) FIRST VERMONT CAVALRY/FIRST BRIGADE, THIRD DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS./THIS REGIMENT FOUGHT STUART'S CAVALRY AT/HANOVER JUNE 30, 1863, OPPOSED HAMPTONS CAVALRY/AT HUNTERSTOWN, JULY 2, AND CHARGED THROUGH THE/FIRST TEXAS INFANTRY AND UPON THE LINE LAW'S/BRIGADE AT THE FOOT OF ROUND TOP, JULY 3./VERMONT SHARP SHOOTERS:/ CONF. FIRST U.S.S.; CB'S E PMP H, SECOND U.S.S.; SECOND BRIGADE, FIRST DIVISION, THIRD CORPS./JULY 2 COMPANY F AIDED IN CHECKING THE ADVANCES/OF WILCAR'S BRIGADE WEST OF SEMINARY RIDGE./COMPANIES A AND H RESISTED LAW'S BRIGADE/WEST OF DEVILS DEN AND UPON THE ROUND TOPS./JULY 3, THE THREE COMPANIES TO PARK/IN THEIR REPULSE OF PICKETT'S CHARGE unsigned
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Summary:
At the top of a tall granite column is a bronze sculpture depicting Brig. Gen. George Stannard holding a sword in his proper left hand. At the foot of the column is a square base which rests on a three granite steps.
