- Joined
- Jan 7, 2013
- Location
- Long Island, NY
I am in Fredericksburg for the 150th of the Battles of The Wilderness and and Spottsylvania and I just wanted to share a few photos.
The first few are of the area of Saunders Field in the Wilderness where the 140th was slaughtered. The 140th NY was from Rochester and included many workers on the Erie Canal as well as farmers and other working men. It had played a crucial role in the defense of Little Round Top. At the Wilderness it would be decimated as it pressed its attack on the Confederate earthworks. The unit was a little over half native born with the immigrant half being nearly equally divided between Germans and Irish. It is the only regiment at Saunder's with a monument:
The first few are of the area of Saunders Field in the Wilderness where the 140th was slaughtered. The 140th NY was from Rochester and included many workers on the Erie Canal as well as farmers and other working men. It had played a crucial role in the defense of Little Round Top. At the Wilderness it would be decimated as it pressed its attack on the Confederate earthworks. The unit was a little over half native born with the immigrant half being nearly equally divided between Germans and Irish. It is the only regiment at Saunder's with a monument: