137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Pennsylvania monuments at Antietam

The monument at Antietam to the 137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment is on Cornfield Avenue. (Cornfield Avenue East tour map) It was dedicated on September 17, 1904.

The 137th Pennsylvania was commanded at the Battle of Antietam by Colonel Henry M. Bossert, a teacher and militia captain from Clinton County. The regiment was brand new – it had been organized only three weeks earlier – and almost completely untrained. Most of it was held in reserve while Colonel Bossert took Company I to support the brigade battery. After the battle it assisted in burying the dead.

137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment monument at Antietam

Text from the tabet on the front of the monument:

137th Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry

1st Brigade 2nd Division 6th Corps

Location of Regiment in action 415 yards
North of Monument

Battles participated in:
South Mountain (Crampton’s Pass), Md.
Antietam, Md.
Fitzhugh’s Crossing, Va.
Chancellorsville, Va.

Recruited in: Blair Butler Clinton Crawford
Schuylkill and Wayne counties

Closeup of the tablet from the monument to the 137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Antietam
Location of the monument

The monument to the 137th Pennsylvania is north of Sharpsburg on the north side of the Cornfield Avenue and 340 yards east of the old Hagerstown Pike (39°28’52.1″N 77°44’41.2″W).

Closeup of the statue from the monument to the 137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Antietam
See more on the history of the 137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War