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First Vermont Brigade

First Vermont Brigade Monument, Wright Avenue

Left Side:

First Vermont Brigade,
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Regiments,
Second Brigade, Second Division, Sixth Corps.

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Organized in the summer of 1861 by Major General William F. Smith, and commanded by Brig. Gen. W. T. H. Brooks and Brig. Gen. and Brevet Maj. Gen. L. A. Grant, this brigade fought in whole or part with the Army of the Potomac from the First Bull Run to Appomattox.

Aggregating-including the Eleventh Regiment, for a year part of the brigade, -11,137 officers and men, it gave 2,439 lives to the Union cause. Killed and mortally wounded in action, 1128. Died of disease and by accident, 1009. Died in Confederate prisons, 302. Wounded not mortally 2,265 - Total, 4,704.

Right Side

Reaching this field by a forced march of thirty two miles in the evening of July 2, the brigade took position on the left Union flank near this point in anticipation of an attack by the enemy and held the same July 3d and 4th.

First Bull Run	Salem Heights	Weldon Railroad
Lee's Mill	Fredericksburg June 5, '63	Charlestown
Williamsburg	Gettysburg	Opequon
Golding's Farm	Funkstown	Fisher's Hill
Savage Station	Rappahannock Sta.	Cedar Creek
White Oak Swamp	Wilderness	Petersburg Mar. 25, '65
Crampton's Pass	Spottsylvania	Petersburg April 2, '65
Antietam	Cold Harbor	Sailor's Creek
Fredericksburg Dec 13 '62	Petersburg June 18 '64
Marye's Heights	Ream's Station

Unit	Commander at Gettysburg	Strength	Casualties
2nd Vermont	Colonel James Hicks Walbridge	528	None
3rd Vermont	Colonel Thomas Orvilla Seaver	428	None
4th Vermont	Colonel Charles Bradley Stoughton	437	1 wounded
5th Vermont	Lieutenant Colonel John Randolph Lewis	341	None
6th Vermont	Colonel Elisha Leonard Barney	362	None

Source: Inscriptions from monument; units, commanders, strength and casualties from 1892 Revised Roster.

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