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.

Monument to the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Antietam

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

Monuments to the 45th and 100th Pennsylvania Infantry at Antietam

The view looks northeast from the north end of Branch Avenue. Monuments to the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry (left) and 100th Pennsylvania Infantry (right) stand halfway up the steep banks of the bluffs that line the draw that leads from Antietam Creek (out of sight to the right) to the village of Sharpsburg (out of sight to the left). Further down the bluffs at the left of the photo Rodman Avenue crosses over modern Burnside Bridge Road to end at Old Burnside Bridge Road (heading right across the center of the photo) and the start of Branch Avenue (heading left). In the distance the chimneys of the Sherrick farmhouse rise above the trees. The Otto farmhouse is just out of the photo to the right.

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.