49th Pennsylvania Infantry

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps

(Front):

49th Penna. Infantry

3rd Brig. 1st Div. 6th Corps

(Left):

This regiment made a continuous march from Manchester, MD, arriving on the field the afternoon of July 2. Occupied this position in reserve from the morning of the 3rd until the enemy's assault in the afternoon when it moved to support centre. Thence to Round Top.

(Right):Organized September 14, 1861

Re-enlisted December 24, 1863.

Mustered out July 15, 1865

Total enrollment 1400.

Killed in action 91.

Died of wounds 58.

Died of disease 173

Wounded 333.

Captured or missing 74

Total losses 729.

(Back):

Yorktown

Williamsburg

Seven Days

Antietam

Fredericksburg

Marye's Heights

Salem Heights

Gettysburg

Rappahannock Station

Mine Run

Wilderness

Spotsylvania

North Anna

Totopotomy

Cold Harbor

Petersburg

Winchester

Petersburg (Assault)

Sailor's Creek

Appomattox

Recruited

in the counties of

Centre, Chester, Huntingdon

Mifflin and Juniata

Marker is on Howe Avenue 0.1 miles east of Taneytown Road (Pennsylvania Road 194), on the right when traveling west.

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