Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The monument to the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (Collis’ Zouaves) is on the south side of Plank Road (Virginia Route 3).
Colonel Charles H.T. Collis commanded the regiment at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Colonel Collis was forced to leave the field due to sickness on May 3. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Cavada then took command.
The regiment is also honored by a monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.
Attached to the 3rd Corps – 1st Division – 1st Brigade |
From base of the monument
Collis Zouaves
From the bronze tablet on the monument:
Erected to mark the line of battle of the
114th Reg’t. Pennsylvania Vol’s.
on the memorable 3rd day of May 1863, where it lost 3 officers
and 35 enlisted men killed
List of Killed
Major Joseph S. Chandler
Captain Frank Eliot, Co. F.
Lieu’t. George M. Cullen, Co. G.
Henry Steelman. Co. A. |
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Location of the monument to the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at Chancellorsville
The monument is on the south side of Plank Road (Virginia Route 3) about 500 yards east of the Visitor Center. Plank Road is a divided highway at this point with poor access to the monument from the westbound lanes.
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