Union monuments at Gettysburg > Ohio
The monument to the 61st Ohio Infantry Regiment is north of Gettysburg on Howard Avenue. (Howard Avenue West tour map) There are also flank markers in the National Cemetery showing the regiment’s position on July 2nd and 3rd, although there is no monument to the regiment there.
About the monument to the 61st Ohio
The monument is made of Concord granite and stands about fifteen and a half feet high. It is capped with a carved knapsack. The front has a relief of two rifles hung with cartridge boxes, above a relief of the crescent moon symbol of the Eleventh Corps. The monument was dedicated on September 14th, 1887 by the State of Ohio.
Monument to the 61st Ohio Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg
The 61st Ohio Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg
Colonel Stephen J. McGroarty commanded the 61st Ohio Infantry at Gettysburg.
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See Lieut. Col. Bown’s Official Report on the 61st Ohio at Gettysburg
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Text from the front of the monument:
The 61st Ohio Infantry
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On arriving from Emmittsburg about one o’clock p.m., July 1st 1863, was deployed as skirmish line in advance of its Brigade and moved towards Oak Hill. Later it supported a section of Dilger’s Battery, and engaged the enemy on this ground. After an obstinate contest it withdrew with the 11th Corps to Cemetery Hill. On the evening of July 2d it moved to the assistance of the 12th Corps on Culp’s Hill, and returning lay on Cemetery Hill during the remainder of the battle.
61st Ohio Infantry.
1st Brigade 3d Division, 11th Corps
Erected by the State of Ohio
From the left side of the monument:
The 61st Ohio Infantry
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Gettysburg July 1,2, 3 1863.
Present for duty 309.
Killed 6
wounded 36
missing 12
total loss 54
View from before the removal of the tree behind the monument
From the right side of the monument:
The 61st Ohio Infantry
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Was organized by companies from various parts of Ohio in April and May 1862. It reenlisted as a veteran regiment from January to April 1864, was consolidated with the 82d Ohio Infantry March 31, 1865, and was mustered out July 24, 1865.
From the rear of the monument:
Principal engagements
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Freeman’s Ford Resaca
Warrenton Sulphur Springs New Hope Church
Groveton Culp’s Farm
Chancellorsville Peach Tree Creek
Gettysburg Atlanta
Wauhatchie Sandersville
Mission Ridge Monteith Swamp
Relief of Knoxville Savannah,
Bentonville
Flank marker for the 61st Ohio in the National Cemetery
From the flank marker in the National Cemetery:
61 O.V.I
Right
July 2 and 3
1863
Location of the monument to the 61st Ohio Infantry
The monument to the 61st Ohio Infantry is north of Gettysburg on Howard Avene about 350 yards east of Mummasburg Road. (39°50’29.6″N 77°14’02.5″W)