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The monument.

The monument is twenty feet high, the statue being nine feet, and pedestal and base eleven feet. On the front of the monument is the following inscription: ‘Erected by Pennsylvania to commemorate the charge of General Humphrey's Division of Fifth Army Corps on Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862; 134th, 129th, 126th, gist, 1333d, 155th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.’ It is a beautiful piece of work of Stony Creek, Conn., granite, hone finish.


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