Seventy-Seventh Infantry Regiment Monument - Saratoga Springs, NY - American Civil War Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com

"J. W. FISKE (Incised on bottom of base:) 77 N.Y.S.VOLS. (On bronze plaque on base:) THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT,/NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS/(BEMIS HEIGHTS BATTALION/THIRD BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, SIXTH CORPS,/ ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,/1861 - * - 1865/ TOOK PART IN ALL THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE/ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, ALSO IN THE BATTLE OF/FORT STEVENS AT WASHINGTON D.C. AND IN THE/CAMPAIGN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY/UNDER SHERIDAN./- * - (On bronze plaque on base:) THE HENRY BONNARD BRONZE CO. N.Y. 1899.

A Civil War soldier standing holding a rifle in both hands and resting its butt on the ground. The mustached figure wears a cap and a knee-length coat and cape. He rests on his proper right leg with proper left leg slightly bent. This figure stands atop a large rectangular bronze pedestal, which, in turn, rests a series of stacked rectangular stone blocks of varying sizes. On the lower face of the base is a bronze plaque with a carved stone cross and band of inlaid stars."

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