118TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS WAR MEMORIAL
118TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS (CORN EXCHANGE REGIMENT)
ERECTED IN THEIR HONOR BY THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE FORMERLY CORN EXCHANGE OF PHILADELPHIA, AND THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT.
THE MEMORIAL STANDS ON A BOULDER OUTCROPPING ON BIG ROUND TOP. THE REGIMENTAL DESIGNATION APPEARS ON A KNAPSACK CROWNING THE MEMORIAL. THE CENTER DISPLAYS A MALTESE CROSS THE SYMBOL OF THE 5TH CORPS EMBRACED BY A WREATH OF CORN STALKS.
ERECTED IN THEIR HONOR BY THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE FORMERLY CORN EXCHANGE OF PHILADELPHIA, AND THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT.
THE MEMORIAL STANDS ON A BOULDER OUTCROPPING ON BIG ROUND TOP. THE REGIMENTAL DESIGNATION APPEARS ON A KNAPSACK CROWNING THE MEMORIAL. THE CENTER DISPLAYS A MALTESE CROSS THE SYMBOL OF THE 5TH CORPS EMBRACED BY A WREATH OF CORN STALKS.
Listing Details
- Public
- CIVIL WAR
- Stone Carving Memorials
- 1884
- GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK-BIG ROUND TOP
- 17325
- CRAIG SWAIN
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