GDG- 40th NY monument question

[Alan D. Brunelle]

Thanks much for this information - the point you make at the end would 
seem to make good sense.

As to Jim's note about the the GBMA rule, I've heard that too (in fact, 
on a guided tour an LBG named Ellen Pratt(?) noted this very fact) - but 
in their video on "The Rose Farm", LBG's Timothy Smith & Gary Adelman 
point out that the rule is not universally held - there was an exception 
or two on the Stony Hill (if I remember correctly), and they talked 
about the monuments on some avenue as all being wrong - it began with an 
H, and I recall something like "Hallaway"? Avenue? Didn't ring a bell at 
all. I'll have to dig up that video, and scan through it to see if I can 
find it...

Of course, with the 40th NY, they probably had plenty of directions to 
choose from - ranging around the compass from the southeast to back 
around to the northwest (or further)...

Speaking of the video, while in the 'burg I purchased 3, and of the 
three I really liked Scott Hartwig's video on Day 3 Culp's Hill. He did 
a great job explaining things, and from his verbal notes (coupled with 
having recently tramped around that area) it made a lot of things much 
clearer.

Alan

zfry at kent.edu wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> The 40th New York fought the better part of its action facing south
> toward the 2nd and 17th GA, 44th and 48th AL.  My understanding of the
> event has always been that the Mozart Regiment helped to cover the
> withdrawal of Federal troops from Devil's Den and lower Houck's Ridge.  
>
> According to the report of Col. Thomas Wilberforce Egan (OR, vol. 27,
> part 1, p. 526):
> "All attempts to dislodge them from the second line proving unsuccessful
> [Benning's right wing in the Plum Run Gorge, most likely], and
> discovering that they had gained ground upon my right, which threatened
> a flank movement, the regiments on my right having fallen to the rear
> and exposed us to a cross-fire, I was compelled to fall back, rallying
> my men upon the ridge over which I passed."
>
> >From p. 18 of LBG Gary Kross' article "To Die Like Soldiers: The Retreat
> from Sickles' Front, July 2, 1863" in Blue & Gray Magazine, Campaign
> issue 1998, "The last outfit to withdraw from the valley was the 40th
> New York under Col. Thomas W. Egan slightly in advance of Gilkyson's
> [6th NJ] left.  The 40th, or 'Mozart Regiment,' had earlier moved past
> Smith's section in Plum Run Valley, relieving his two guns from the
> defense of the reverse slopes of Houck's Ridge."
>
> I can't say with one hundred percent certainty why the 40th NY decided
> to place its monument facing the direction it now does, but likely they
> wanted their brave role in covering the withdrawal from Houck's Ridge to
> be remembered above all else.
>
> With my compliments,
> Zack Fry
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