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Pennsylvania monuments at Antietam

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The monument at Antietam to the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment is on the north side of the Sunken Road (Bloody Lane), off Richardson Avenue. (Sunken Road west tour map) It was dedicated by the State of Pennsylvania on September 17, 1904.

The 130th Pennsylvania was commanded at the Battle of Antietam by Colonel Henry I. Zinn, a schoolteacher from Allen, Pennsylvania. His image is on a bas-relief on the front of the statue. Colonel Zinn’s horse was killed under him at Antietam, and Lieutenant Colonel Maish was shot through the right shoulder and lung. Colonel Zinn would be killed in December at Fredericksburg, leading the regiment while carrying its colors that he had taken from the fallen color-bearer.

Text from the front of the monument:

130
Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry

2 Brigade
3 Division
2 Corps

Text from the rear of the monument:

This memorial marks the Regiment’s
right of line in Battle, its left
extended to Roulette’s lane below;
it went into battle by way of the
Roulette farm buildings, about 9:30 A.M.,
and driving back the enemy, maintained
its position at and immediately Northeast
of this point on the high ground
overlooking Bloody Lane until
1:30 o’clock P.M. when withdrawn
to replenish its exhausted ammunition,
and then occupied the reserve line.

Casualties at Antietam
Killed in battle 32
Died from wounds 14
Non-fatal wounds 132
Total 178

 Recruited in Cumberland,
York, Montgomery, Dauphin
and Chester Counties.

Location of the monument

The monument to the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment is north of Sharpsburg on the north side of the Sunken Avenue (Bloody Lane) 75 yards east of the intersection with Richardson Avenue (39°28’17.4″N 77°44’26.2″W).

See more on the the history of the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War