Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The monument to the 49th New York Infantry Regiment is along the Bloody Angle walking trail, about 200 yards from the parking lot at Tour Stop 3. (see map and directions at the bottom of the page) It is 15 yards west of the monument to the 15th New Jersey and a short distance to the monument to the 126th Ohio (visible in the distance in the photo below). The monument was dedicated in October of 1902.
There is also a monument to the 49th New York on the Gettysburg battlefield.
The 49th New York was commanded at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House by Lieutenant Colonel George W. Johnson. Its Colonel, Daniel B. Bidwell, had taken over command of the brigade after the Battle of the WIlderness. Major William Ellis was mortally wounded on July 12 and would die on August 3. The 49th lost 52 men killed or mortally wounded, 74 men wounded, and 15 missing or captured.
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Attached to the 6th Corps, 2nd Division, 3rd Brigade |  |
Text from the front of the monument:
49th
N.Y. Inf’y
3rd Brig. 2d Div.
6th Corps.
Held this position
May 12, 1864.
From the left side of the monument:
The muffled drums
sad roll has beat.
The soldiers last
tattoo.
No more on life’s
parade shall meet
that brave and
fallen few.
On fame’s eternal
camping ground
their silent tents
are spread
and glory guards
with solemn round
the bivouac of
the dead.
A list of the regiment’s killed at Spotsylvania is on the rear of the monument:
Captains
Ruben B. Heacock
Seward H. Terry
Lieutenants
Herman Haase
Mortimer L. V. Tyler
John P. McVean
Sergeants
Philip S. Moriarity
John H. Richards
Elijah H. Shippee
Henry R. Rogers
Corporals
Franklin B. Parker
Matthias Berndt
Robert Merrill
William H. Nichols
Arthur Cooper
Julius Goldschmidt
Patrick Murphy
Gilbert D. Harris
Thomas Orr
John S. Grisley
Lafayette Hunting
Samuel W. Pearce
Privates
Harmor Dawson
William Doolittle
John O’Neill
Charles L. Truax
George Voltze
Henry Dayton
William H. Williams
Mortimer Herrick
George Partridge
Frederick Schultz
Dayton R. Leeland
James McGorey
Thomas Apthorp
Timothy O’Regan
Frederick Schultz
Thomas Brooks
Oscar S. Kimball
Daniel Wilcox
49th N.Y. Vols
From the right side:
1864
In memory
of the
brave men
killed on this field
———
Erected
by
their surviving comrades
———
dedicated Oct. 9
1902
Map and directions to the monument to the 49th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Spotsylvania
The monument is off Grant Drive at Stop 3 on the Auto Tour, about 110 yards north of the Bloody Angle walking trail and about 300 yards by trail from the parking area. (38°13’24.6″N 77°36’00.2″W)
See more about the history of the 49th New York Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.
(go to the main Tour Stop 3 page)
(go to the main Battle of Spotsylvania Auto Tour page)