Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: November 11, 2008
Caption: 83rd. Pennsylvania Infantry Monument
Additional Description: The statue atop the monument is not supposed to, but probably depicts Col. Strong Vincent drawing his saber. Note the Maltese cross of the Fifth Corps on the monument's front, above the state seal.

Pennsylvania regimental monuments were, by the preference of the governing board at the time, not supposed have likenesses of their commanders. Such statuary was reserved for individual monuments. Officially, the officer drawing the sword simply looks a lot like Vincent, but could be any of the regiment's officers.
Submitted: January 3, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p48805
File Size: 1.569 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.