Maine at Gettysburg [electronic resource] . Deane, June 28, 1864, mustered out with battery June 17, 1865;originally Private, promoted to Sergt., promoted to Second Lieutenant. Elias D. Libby, Jan. 11, 1865, mustered out with battery June 17, 1865;promoted from Private. 348 MAINE AT GETTYSBURG. MONUMENT COMPANY D, MAINE VOLUNTEERS, SECOND UNITED STATES SHARPSHOOTERS. The monument of company D, Second U. S. Sharpshooters, is placedon a cross-road leading easterly out of the Emmitsburg road, towards BigRound Top, and to the Slyder buildings. Its position is about five hundredyards from the Emmit
Maine at Gettysburg [electronic resource] . Deane, June 28, 1864, mustered out with battery June 17, 1865;originally Private, promoted to Sergt., promoted to Second Lieutenant. Elias D. Libby, Jan. 11, 1865, mustered out with battery June 17, 1865;promoted from Private. 348 MAINE AT GETTYSBURG. MONUMENT COMPANY D, MAINE VOLUNTEERS, SECOND UNITED STATES SHARPSHOOTERS. The monument of company D, Second U. S. Sharpshooters, is placedon a cross-road leading easterly out of the Emmitsburg road, towards BigRound Top, and to the Slyder buildings. Its position is about five hundredyards from the Emmitsburg road, and about seven hundred yards south-westerly from Devils Den. It is a polished die of white granite, restingupon a rough, white granite base. Admeasurements: Base, 3 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 4 inches by 1 foot 6inches; die, 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 3 inches. Total height,4 feet 9 inches. The inscription is: — Company D, Maine Volunteers, 2nd U. S. Sharpshooters. July 2, 1863. Killed 1. Wounded 5. Missing COMPANY D, SECOND U. S. SHAEPSHOOTEKS, SECOND BRIGADE, FIRST DIVISION, THIRD ARMY CORPS, AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. COMPANY D, of the Second United States Sharpshooters,of Wards brigade, was composed of Maine soldiers, vol-unteers from Rockland and various towns. Captain JacobMcClure, of Rockland, commanded the company at two regiments of Sharpshooters in Wards brigade were thebest known regiments in the army. Recruited from pickedmen from different states, they were enlisted like regulars forthe reason that no single state could furnish the material for aregiment of such fine marksmen. No recruit was eligible whocould not make ten consecutive shots whose aggregate distancefrom the centre of the target would string less than fiftyinches, an average of less than five inches for each shot; thedistance being six hundred feet at a rest, or three hundred feetoff hand. Many of the men could at that distance put the shotsinside the
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