114TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY WAR MEMORIAL
ERECTED BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN HONOR OF HER SONS OF THE 114TH REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.A TRIBUTE TO THEIR DEVOTION TO DUTY, THEIR UNFALTERING COURAGE AND GLORIOUS SACRIFICES. TESTED ON MANY FIELDS, THEIR VALOR WAS MOST CONSPICUOUS AT WINCHESTER VIRGINIA SEPT 19TH, 1864, IN HOLDING ADVANCE DEFENSIVE LINES AT A LOSS, KILLED AND WOUNDED, OF 188 OF THE 315 ENGAGED, AND AT CEDAR CREEK VIRGINIA OCT 19TH, 1864, IN RESISTING FLANK ATTACKS AND JOINING IN THE FINAL VICTORIOUS CHARGE AT A LIKE LOSS OF 127 OF THE 250 ENGAGED. TIME CROWNS THEIR MEMORIES WITH UNDYING HONOR.
Listing Details
- Cemetery
- CIVIL WAR
- Obelisks War Monument
- WINCHESTER NATIONAL CEMETERY
- 22601
- CRAIG SWAIN
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