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Here is some information to help you locate the two monuments to the 98th regiment. Please note that the text provided was taken from a battlefield guide with a bit of rewording on my part. I believe their information to be a smidgen inaccurate, as the monument dedication speeches on record took place in 1889. So consider the 1885 and 1898 dates they have listed “estimates” until I can further confirm them.

There are two monuments to the 98th Pennsylvania Volunteers on the Gettysburg battlefield:

Little Round Top
39.793652 N, 77.235483 W
Erected in 1885 by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tour map: Little Round Top
Google maps to both monuments

The monument that sits on the north side of Little Round Top along Sykes Avenue, was the original monument dedicated in 1885 by the survivors and friends of the regiment. This monument was moved to the Little Round Top location when state money became available in 1898, and a larger monument was dedicated about 500 yards to the northwest near the John Weickert farmhouse.

READS:
(FRONT)
98th Penna. Infantry
3d Brig. 3d Div. 6th Corps
Leading the Corps in the march from Manchester, MD
Arrived here July 2nd about 5 p.m. immediately charged into the Wheatfield and woods to the left. About dark rejoined the brigade north of the road where the other monument stands.

(RIGHT)
Gettysburg July 2, 3, 4, 1863

(LEFT)
98th Regt. PaV.V.
To Our Fallen Comrades

(BACK)
98th Regt.
Penna. Vet. Vols.
Organized in Phila. April 29th 1861
for 3 mo’s as the 21st Reg. P.V.
Re-organized Aug. 17th 1861
for 3 years as the 98th Reg. P.V.
Re-enlisted Dec. 23d. 1863
Mustered out June 29th. 1865

 

John Weickert Farm
39.797611 N, 77.236655 W;
Erected in 1889 by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tour map: Crawford Ave. & J. Weickert Farm

*My trivia note: This monument dedication photo shows the (now at Little Round Top) monument (still with some text missing) surrounded by veterans of the 98th, as originally placed near the Weickert farm. At the dedication, the monument was set in place several yards closer to the driveway than the current monument sits today (which can get kind of swampy on wet days). It probably was dedicated somewhere near where the picket fence comes out in the modern day front yard.

READS:

(FRONT)
98th Penna. Infantry
The regiment was the advance of the Sixth Corps in its march from Manchester, MD to the battlefield and occupied this position from the evening of July 2d. until the close of the battle.
3rd. Brigade 3rd. Division
6th. Corps.

(LEFT)
Recruited in Philadelphia
Mustered in April 29th 1861 as the 21st
Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months. Reorgan-
ized as the 98th Pennsylvania Infantry and
Mustered in August 17th 1861. Re-enlisted
December 23rd, 1863. Mustered out June 29th. 1865.

(RIGHT)
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