Pennsylvania monuments at Antietam
The monument to the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Antietam is on Branch Avenue. (Branch Avenue North tour map) It was dedicated on September 17, 1904.
The 100th Pennsylvania was commanded at the Battle of Antietam by Lieutenant Colonel David A. Leckey, a farmer from Elizabeth Township. The regiment was assigned as skirmishers for the brigade, and suffered light losses in their advance to the edge of Sharpsburg.
The monument is next to the monument to the 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Text from the monument:
100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
2nd Brigade 1st Division 9th Corps
Location 495 yards North 79 degrees West
Casualties at Antietam
Wounded 7
Missing 1
Total 8
Recruited in Lawrence, Washington, Butler, Beaver, Mercer and Westmoreland Counties.
Battles participated in:
Coosaw, Sessionville, Legareville, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson, Blue Springs, Campbell’s Station, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, The Crater, Siege of Knoxville, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring Church, Hatcher’s Run, Fort Stedman, Assault on Petersburg.
Virtue, Liberty and Independence
Erected by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
ROUNDHEADS
Location of the Monument
The monument to the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment is east of Sharpsburg on the east side of Branch Avenue just south of the intersection wth the Old Burnside Bridge Road (39°27’17.1″N 77°44’19.2″W).
See more on the history of the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.