The 1st New Jersey Brigade monument on South Mountain is at Crampton's Gap next to the War Correspondent's Memorial Arch. See map >
From the monument:
First New Jersey Brigade
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer's Battery
September 14, 1862
Late in the afternoon the Brigade advanced from the fields north and west of Burkittsville, charged up the mountain, carried this point, and followed the enemy to the west foot of the mountain. Loss in the Brigade 40 killed, 134 wounded
The brigade is also honored with a monument at Antietam and another at Gettysburg. |
