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<p>Gettysburg National Military Park
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325
October 21, 1970
Thomas J. Harrison
Supervisory [illegible]
Specialist
Louisiana Military Department
Office of the Adjutant General
Jackson Barracks
New Orleans, Louisiana 70140
Attention: Mrs. Mary Oalmann
AGO Library
Dear Sir:
We are very pleased to provide you with the enclosed copies of information on the Louisiana Gettysburg Memorial Monument and of “Louisiana Troops at Gettysburg.”
The text on the monument which will be dedicated most probably in the Spring of ’71 will read:
(State of Louisiana Memorial)
“This memorial was erected by the State of Louisiana to honor her sons who fought and died at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. In particular it memorializes the 2300 infantrymen of Hays and Nicholl’s Louisiana Brigades, the cannoneers in the Washington Artillery of New Olreans, and those in the Louisiana Guard, Madison and Donaldsonville Artillery Batteries, who were in the Battle of Gettysburg.”
(recent text modification approved by Jerry Schober)
If I recall my Louisiana militia history nearly all of these unit histories are part of the heritage of present Louisiana National Guard units.
The monument will be located on West Confederate Avenue, about 3,000 feet southwest of the sites occupied by the Washington Artillery on July 3, 1863. The two Louisiana Brigades were in action and position several miles from the monument site.</p>
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