Looking north at the monuments along Brooke Avenue at Gettysburg. From right to left: monument to the 64th New York Infantry, Headquarters of the Fourth Brigade, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry (with black statue) and 17th Connecticut Infantry. The 145th Pennsylvania Infantry monument is half visible behind a tree at the left edge of the photo.
Brooke Avenue was laid out by the War Department in 1906. It is a one way paved road which starts as Cross Avenue at the intersection of Ayers and Sickles Avenues. It turns into DeTrobriand Avenue, which terminates at Sickles Avenue in the Wheatfield. Traffic eventualy exits to Wheatfield Road.
The avenue is named after Colonel John R. Brooke, commander of the 4th Brigade in the First Division of the Union Second Corps. His brigade charged to this location on the afternoon of July 2nd and briefly held the position. It was the furthest advance of the counterattack of Caldwell’s Division of the Second Corps.
There are five Union regimental monuments, one Union headquarters monument, and two Confederate brigade markers along Brooke Avenue. They are clustered together in a relatively small area under the beautiful trees of the Rose Woods.