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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.8 (search)
granite shaft, nine feet high and four feet wide, mounted on a solid granite pedestal two and one-half feet high. On the shaft is a pedestrian statue of a private soldier seven feet high, with musket at arms rest position. The cost of that shaft was $10,000. It bears the following inscripion: 1861-1865. Fifteenth regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. Erected by the State of New Jersey to mark that portion of the Confederate line held by the Fourteenth Georgia Regiment and assaulted May 12, 1864, by the Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward K. Campbell. Men engaged, 423; loss, 116 killed, 159 wounded, 33 missing. On the opposite side is the following inscription: Commissioners appointed by Governor John Franklin Fort, viz., Hon. John F. Dryden, chairman; Sergeant William H. Wyckoff, treasurer; Private Stephen W. Gordon, secretary; Sergeant William H. Crawley, General Joseph W. Plume, Private Albert W. Whiteland, Priv