The 2nd Maryland Battalion Monument (CSA) at Gettysburg National Military Park.

Journaling Says:
The 1st Maryland Battalion Monument is the only regimental monument built by a Confederate veteran’s group. It was part of General George Steuart’s brigade of General Edward Johnson’s division, Richard Ewell’s 2nd Corps. The 1st Maryland participated in the successful assault and capture of the lightly defended lower Culp’s Hill on the evening of July 2. They held this spot until noon on July 3 when the Confederate line was repulsed.

The Board of Directors of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association granted permission to the survivors of the 1st Maryland to build a monument showing their position on the field in October 1884. Some Union veterans opposed Confederate veterans desire to honor their dead. The first concession the 1st Maryland had to make was to use 2nd Maryland to avoid confusion with 2 union regiments who had fought nearby with the same numeric designation. The site of the monument is the position the unit occupied on July 2 when they broke into the Union defenses.

The monument is made up of a tapered die and topped with a polished granite ball. A large bas relief carving of the Maryland state seal is on the front. A Baltimore cross is on the four faces of the capstone since most of the men in the regiment were from the city or the surrounding area. The monument was dedicated in November 1866 with a large number of onlookers in attendance including the former brigade commander General Steuart. A smaller monument was built 100 yards inside Union lines to represent the point the unit reached during the fight on the morning of July 3, 1863.

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