The monument to the Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves at Antietam is on Mansfield Ave. It was dedicated on September 17, 1906. see map
From the front of the monument:
8th Regt.
Pennsylvania
Reserve Volunteer Corps
37th Regiment of the line
From the bronze tablet on the rear of the monument:
8th Pa. Reserve Vol. Inf.
Major Silas M. Baily
2nd Brigade, 3rd Div., 1st Corps
Advanced about 600 yards south and became
engaged with Hood's Confederate Division
Loss at Antietam
Killed 12
Wounded 44
Engagements
Mechanicsville, Va., June 26, 1862
Gaines Mill, Va., June 27, 1862
Charles City Cross Road, Va., June 30, 1862 Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862
Second Bull Run, Va., Aug. 28, 29 & 30, 1862
South Mountain, Md., Sept. 14, 1862
Antietam, Md., Sept. 16 and 17, 1862
Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862
Wilderness, Va., May 5 to 17, 1864
Spotsylvania, Va., May 5 to 17, 1864
Present at Dranesville, Bristae Station, Chantilly
Recruited Co. "A" Armstrong County;
Co "B" Dauphin County;
Cos. "C" & "E" Alleghany county;
Cos. "D" & "G" Fayette County;
Co. "F" Bedford County;
Co. "H" Clarion County;
Co. "K" Washington County;
Co. "I" Green County.
Mustered into United States Service July 29, 1861
at Meridian Hill, D.C.
Mustered out at Pittsburg May 24, 1864.
Summary
Total enlistment, 1062; killed and died of wounds 158; Total killed and wounded 490,
captured and missing 147.
Died of disease and accidents in prison 68.
The east side of the monument has a Maltese cross inscribed insided a circle, the symbols of the two corps (First Corps - Circle; Fifth Corps, Maltese Cross) to which the regiment was attached during the war.
A War Department tablet near the monument tells the story of the 8th's parent brigade at Antietam.
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