130th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry - Sharpsburg, MD
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N 39° 28.289 W 077° 44.437
18S E 264250 N 4372685
A monument honoring the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry is located on the Antietam Battlefield on the north side of the farm road then known as the Sunken Road and now called Bloody Lane.
Waymark Code: WMTJMM
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 11/30/2016
Views: 4
A 7' by 4' by 2.5' granite figure of a Union soldier stands on top of a 7.5' by 7' by 4.75' tiered granite base. The monument was created by A. Wilson and the contractor was the Van Amringe Granite Company. It was dedicated at the Antietam Battlefield by the State of Pennsylvania on September 17, 1904.
The uniformed Union infantryman is depicted holding a rifle vertically by his right leg with both hands on the barrel, left over right. A strap slung over is right shoulder holds a pouch at his left hip. On both sides of the top of the base there is a bedroll. In the center of the base is a bronze medallion of Colonel Henry I. Zinn. The Corps emblem of a three-leaf clover appears in raised relief on the sides of the pedestal. The other side contains the bronze seal of the State of Pennsylvania.
In raised block letters on the front of the base is inscribed:
130
PENNSYLVANIA
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
2 BRIGADE
3 DIVISION
2 CORPS
On the back of the base is a bronze plaque with the following inscription:
THIS MEMORIAL MARKS THE REGIMENT'S
RIGHT OF LINE IN BATTLE, ITS LEFT
EXTENDED TO ROULETTE'S LANE BELOW;
IT WENT INTO BATTLE BY WAY OF THE
ROULETTE FARM BUILDINGS, ABOUT 9:30 A.M.,
AND DRIVING BACK THE ENEMY, MAINTAINED
ITS POSITION AT AND IMMEDIATELY NORTHEAST
OF THIS POINT ON THE HIGH GROUND
OVERLOOKING BLOODY LANE UNTIL
1:30 O'CLOCK P.M. WHEN WITHDRAWN
TO REPLENISH ITS EXHAUSTED AMMUNITION,
AND THEN OCCUPIED THE RESERVE LINE.
CASUALTIES AT ANTIETAM
KILLED IN BATTLE 32
DIED FROM WOUNDS 14
NON-FATAL WOUNDS 132
TOTAL 178
RECRUITED IN CUMBERLAND,
YORK, MONTGOMERY, DAUPHIN
AND CHESTER COUNTIES.
Website pertaining to the memorial: [Web Link]
List if there are any visiting hours:
Visitors center open 9 am to 5 pm
grounds are open during daylight hours
Entrance fees (if it applies): $5
Type of memorial: Monument
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