This glass slide is an image of the monument to the 3^rd Maine Infantry, 2^nd Brigade, 1^st Division, 3^rd Corps which stands in the Peach Orchard on the Gettysburg Battlefield. It is from the dedication of the monument on October 3, 1889.

Slide measures 4” x 3 ¼” and is in excellent condition with no chips in the glass.

This is a nice early Gettysburg collectible.

The regiment was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Colonel Moses B. Lakeman. Colonel Lakeman took over the brigade on July 3rd, and Captain William C. Morgan took command of the regiment. It lost 1 officer and 17 men killed, 2 officers and 57 men wounded, and 45 men missing out of a strength of 14 officers and 196 men. The entire color guard was killed or captured. At the end of the day on July 2nd only 97 men answered roll call.

From the monument in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg:

Detached from the Brigade. Fought here in the afternoon of July 2nd, 1863. Having been engaged in the forenoon at point in advance as indicated by a marker.

July 3rd in position on left centre of line, until afternoon, when with other regiments of the Brigade, it moved to support of the centre at time of the enemy’s assault.

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