Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . BRONZE RELIEF PLATES ON NEW YORK STATE MONUMENT. Around the base of the New York State monument are the bronze reliefs thatare shown above. That on the front represents the wounding of General Sickles. It is numbered 4 in our illustration. Shown in the group are GeneralsSickles, J. B. Carr, J. H. H. Ward, S. K. Zook, C. K. Graham, R. B. Avres, S. H. Weed and Col. H. E. Tremain. The obverse plate, numbered 2, showsGenerals H. W. Slocum, A. Pleasanto
Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . BRONZE RELIEF PLATES ON NEW YORK STATE MONUMENT. Around the base of the New York State monument are the bronze reliefs thatare shown above. That on the front represents the wounding of General Sickles. It is numbered 4 in our illustration. Shown in the group are GeneralsSickles, J. B. Carr, J. H. H. Ward, S. K. Zook, C. K. Graham, R. B. Avres, S. H. Weed and Col. H. E. Tremain. The obverse plate, numbered 2, showsGenerals H. W. Slocum, A. Pleasanton, J. S. Wadsworth, G. S. Greene, H. J. Hunt, J. j. Bartlett, D. A. Russell, A. Shaler, and Col. H. A. Barnum. Thaton the right and numbered 1 pictures the death of Major General John F. Reynolds, and shown around are Generals A. Doubleday, A. Von Steinwehr, J. , F. C. Barlow, and Col. F. C. Devin. On the left, number 3 represents the wounding of Major General W. S. Hancock and shows also GeneralsD. Butterfield, G. K. Warren, J. Kilpatrick and A. S. NEW YORK. The State of New York erected this splendid monument to the memory of its dead at an expense of $60,000. It is in the NationalCemetery and faces the section of graves where 867 of New Yorks dead He. It is an imposing shaft, with large bronze tablets around the base, repre-senting important events in each days battle. The equestrian statue of General Slocum is the work of the sculptor, E. C. Potter, and is an example ofthe generosity of the Empire State. It cost $30,000. Of the 360 organizations that composed the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg 175 were from NewYork and Pennsylvania. Each of these States furnished at all times more than one-fourth of the army. Twenty-nine States of the Union had troops inthe two armies at Gettysburg. On the Confederate side the State of Virginia supplied one-fourth of the infantry, two-thirds of the cavalry and nearly two-thirds of the artillerv that invaded the North. Th
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