The 76th New York

The 76th New York Infantry monument.

Photo taken on August 11, 2006 (MJW)

This unit suffered no shortage of monikers. They also went by the following...Cortland Regiment, Cherry Valley Regiment, Otsego County Regiment, and the Cromwellian Regiment.

Another view of the 76th New York monument on Reynolds Avenue. The 76th was included in Cutler's brigade and went into early action on the extreme right of the 1st Army Corps on July 1st. The unit entered the fray with 375 men. When all was said and done they had suffered 32 killed, 132 wounded, and 70 missing !

Major Andrew Jackson Grover commanded the 76th on the first day at Gettysburg. He was mortally wounded early in the fighting. An ordained Methodist Minister in Cortland, NY, Grover was 32 years old at the time of his death.

July 1, 1893 (?) reunion at Gettysburg.