Battle of Chancellorsville • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The monument to the 154th New York Infantry Regiment is on Plank Road (Virginia Route 3) east of the Orange Plank Road intersection. (see map below) The monument is in the shape of the crescent moon, symbol of the Eleventh Corps of the Army of the Potomac.
Colonel Patrick H. Jones commanded the regiment at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jones was born in Ireland and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1840. He was a correspondent and editor for newspapers in western New York before studying the law and becoming a leading attorney. Colonel Jones was wounded and captured in Jackson’s attack. He was a prisoner for five months before being exchanged. Lieutenant Colonel Henry C. Loomis took over command when Jones was wounded.
There is a monument to the 154th New York Infantry Regiment on Coster Avenue on the Gettysburg battlefield. There is another monument at Gettysburg to one of the regiment’s men, Sergeant Amos Humiston.
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Attached to the 11th Corps – 2nd Division – 1st Brigade |  |
Text from the front of the monument
154th New York State Volunteer Infantry
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Corps
“The Hardtack Regiment”
Anchor of the Buschbeck Line
Near Dowdall’s Tavern
Battle of Chancellorsville
May 2, 1861
From the rear of the monument
590 present for duty
240 killed, wounded or captured
Dedicated to the memory of the regiment
by its descendents
May 1996
Location of the monument to the 154th New York Infantry at Chancellorsville
The monument is on the south side of Plank Road (Virginia Route 3). It is about 0.35 mile east of the Orange Plank Road intersection. Plank Road is a divided highway at this point with no access from the westbound lanes, although there is a turn around just a short distance ahead.
See more on the history of the 154th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.