The Virginia 37th monument in Gettysburg Battlefield National Park near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Monument to the men of Ewell's Corps Johnson Division including the 37th Virginia Infantry

I will just follow up my last post about our recent travel in Virginia to include that we stopped for a day in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to tour the Gettysburg National Battlefield National Park. As I stated in my last post, we have come to expect that anything done by the National Park Service is excellent, and Gettysburg did not disappoint us in any way. We watched a very good film and did the multi-media presentation they have worked around the 377' x 42' painting done in France in the 1880s by Phillipoteaux. If you have not been there since the installation of this painting in the round Cyclorama presentation, it would be worth a return trip.

We also took their bus tour, having been too late to schedule a private licensed and tested guide who will ride in your car if you wish for a fee even lower than the bus tour. Our bus tour guide was extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of the battle, so we learned a great deal more from the tour.

Above is the monument to the larger group with which our Virginia 37th Infantry fought at Gettysburg. Here is what the monument says:

C. S. A.
Army of Northern Virginia
Ewell’s Corps Johnson’s Division
Steuart’s Brigade 
1st Maryland Battalion 1st and 3rd North Carolina
10th 23rd and 37th Virginia Infantry

July 1. Arrived about nightfall and took position near Hanover Road about a mile east of Rock Creek with left wing at edge of woods.

July 2. Crossing Rock Creek at 6 P. M. the 3d N. C. and 1st Md. attacked the lesser summit of Culp’s Hill. Reinforced later by the other regiments the Union breastworks thinly manned at some points were occupied to the southern base of the main summit but only after a vigorous and desperate conflict.

July 3. The Union troops reinforced the conflict at dawn and it raged fiercely until 11 A. M. when this Brigade and the entire line fell back to the base of the hill and from thence moved about midnight to Seminary Ridge northwest of the town.

July 4. Occupied Seminary Ridge. About 10 P. M. began the march to Hagerstown.

Present about 1700 Killed 83 Wounded 409 Missing 190 Total 682